For 10 points, what state's politicians included John Crittenden and the "Great Compromiser," Henry Clay?
Alexander II was convinced to back the Union cause by a politician from this state who served as Abraham Lincoln's ambassador to Russia; that "Lion from White Hall" defended the of ce of his newspaper, the True American, from a proslavery mob in this state with his trademark Bowie knife. Jeroboam O. Beauchamp murdered Solomon P. Sharp during a legal crisis in this state that occurred during the Panic of 1819. The politician Cassius M. Clay was from this state, which was the site of the Old CourtÂ–New Court controversy. A politician from this state proposed extending the Missouri Compromise boundary through the west in a namesake 1860 "compromise" intended to solve the sectional crisis. For 10 points, what state's politicians included John Crittenden and the "Great Compromiser," Henry Clay?
Alexander II was convinced to back the Union cause by a politician from this state who served as Abraham Lincoln's ambassador to Russia; that "Lion from White Hall" defended the of ce of his newspaper, the True American, from a proslavery mob in this state with his trademark Bowie knife.
Kentucky [or Commonwealth of Kentucky]