Level 2
Vocabulary
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Tariff: tax on imported goods
Depression: when the economy is weak
Nullify: to cancel out or make useless
Secede: leave the Union
Treason: a serious crime against a country
Essential Questions
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How did Jackson’s policies affect the political,
economic, and social life of the nation?
How was Jackson viewed by different groups
of people?
Intensifying Sectional Differences
1828:
 North
was industrial
 South was agricultural
 North helped to pass the Tariff of 1828 which hurt
the South because the South imported many
goods.
Intensifying Sectional Differences
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Protective tariff, 1828
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High tax on imports
South didn’t like it because
they imported many
agricultural machines and
luxuries
South called the tariff the
“tariff of abomination”
S.C. blamed the tariff for
their economic depression.
V.P. Calhoun agreed with
S.C. and openly stated that
when a states rights were
violated they had a right to
nullify it and if it failed
they had the right to
secede.
Debate of Nullification in the Senate
S.C. Senator Robert Hayne
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Believed that the Union was a league or
compact of states
If the Union threatens the rights of the
states then the states had the right to
dissolve it.
Daniel Webster
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Believed that states didn’t have the right to
nullify or secede from the Union
“I go for the Union as it is…It is, Sir, the
people’s Constitution, the people’s
government, made for the people, made by
the people, and answerable to the people.”
Intensifying Sectional Differences
1832: The Issue of State Rights and Sectionalism
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The North didn’t think states
had the right to secede from
the Union or to nullify federal
laws.
Northeast tried to get the
West to side with them on the
nullification controversy
because
 they were mostly antislavery.
 a New Englander had set
up the Land Ordinances
that gave the West the
right to govern themselves
and be part of the Union.
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The South thought they
had the right to nullify and
or secede from the Union.
The South tried to get the
West to side with them
because
 the South was worried
about losing slavery in
their territory.
 the West was worried
about the banning of
land purchases that
would allow their states
and territories to grow.
Intensifying Sectional Differences
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S.C. passed an Ordinance of Nullification:
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Tariff of 1832 was “null and void” and
stated that S.C. wouldn’t follow it after
February 1833
Also stated that if Jackson tried to use force
then S.C. would secede from the Union
Jackson stated that if S.C. seceded it
would be considered treason.
Jackson ordered armed forces to
Charleston and privately threatened to
hang Calhoun.
Clay negotiated a compromise with the
Tariff of 1833 in which the tariff was
lowered and South Carolina dropped
nullification.
video start at 1:50
Henry Clay
Essential Questions
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How did Jackson’s policies affect the political,
economic, and social life of the nation?
How was Jackson viewed by different groups
of people?