8. Who were the most eminent Presbyterian divines? What benefit was derived from their labors?
9. Mention the political leaders.
10. Through whose efforts was the Supreme Court established? Who were the Justices?
11. What was this period called?
12. What question was greatly agitating the people?
CHAPTER XLV.
THE WHIGS AND THE DEMOCRATS.
A. D. 1821 TO 1827.
1821.
In the decade following the enactment of the Missouri Compromise there was prodigious material growth in every section of the American Union. In North Carolina the real prosperity of the people was imperceptible, by reason of the heavy emigration to the South and West. Not only population, but wealth, was continually withdrawing to more profitable fields of labor and speculation.