In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.

He proudly labeled the territorial acquisitions he engineered the "epocha," and he proposed a compromise solution to the slavery question, which would allow Florida to enter the union as a slave state but free all children born after 1842. He received the only electoral vote not to go to James Monroe in 1820, and he later nominated his Treasury Secretary Richard Rush as his new Vice-Presidential candidate in his re-election campaign after his former understudy bolted to his opponent's ticket. Later, he presented up to twenty antislavery petitions a year in Congress in defiance of the gag rules. He was the chief U.S. negotiator for the Treaty of Ghent, the defender of the Amistad slaves, and the formulator of the Monroe Doctrine as Secretary of State, but he may be best known for the backroom dealing which defeated Andrew Jackson for this man's one successful national election in 1824. FTP, name this man who won the White House under the "corrupt bargain. "
History

In this novel, the protagonist's wife is raped by Phil Connor, and the protagonist's final job in this novel is at Tommy Hind's hotel. Mike Scully's War-Whoop League provides political favor to impoverished workers in this novel. This novel begins with the traditional Lithuanian Veselija wedding feast in which Ona and the protagonist, Jurgis Rudkus, are married in Packingtown. For 10 points, name this novel by Upton Sinclair that graphically described Chicago's meat industry.
Literature

Made up in part by parenchyma grouped into star-shaped arrangements, its action is explained by the evaporation-cohesion-tension model, in which transpiration from the shoot and negative potential of dry air lead to pressure in the (*) ascending sap. Consisting of spindle-shaped tracheids in gymnosperms and the larger oblique vessel elements in angiosperms, for 10 points name this plant tissue that conducts water to leaves.

Science