GOAL
#4
President Jackson struggled to keep the
Southern states from breaking away from
the Union over the issue of tariffs.
Ms. Susan M. Pojer
and Mrs. C. Tomlinson
I. Jackson’s Life
Born in a log cabin
Defied the British
A.
War
hero
The Center of Population in the
Country Moves WEST
II. Jackson’s Presidency
A. 1st Western President
Opened White
House to the “mob”
III. Tariff Issue
A. To get more $,Congress passed a new
law raising tariffs (taxes) on imported
goods such as cloth and glass.
So what’s the big deal about tariffs?
1. Northerners liked high tariffs
*had lots of factories
a. people bought U.S. products since they
were cheaper
2.Southerners hated high tariffs
*traded cotton with foreign countries for $
a. tariff made prices of all products go up
The new law of 1828 raised
tariffs so high that Southerners
nicknamed it the… 3.Tariff of
Abominations.
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On the happy face
IV. Doctrine of Nullification
• A. Southerners believed tariffs were illegal
since they helped one part of the country &
hurt the others - sectionalism
• They wanted to 1. nullify or cancel them.
• SC tried to stop government tax men from
collecting the tariffs
2. VP John C. Calhoun
led the fight
1830
Webster:
Liberty and Union, now and
forever, one and inseparable.
Jackson:
Our Federal Union—it must be
preserved.
Calhoun:
The Union, next to our liberty,
most dear.
V. The Threat of Secession
• A. South Carolina threatened to pull out of U.S.
• Jackson was furious. “If one drop of blood be
shed there in defiance of the laws of the U.S., I
will hang the first man of them I can get my
hands on from the first tree I can find”
• B. Congress passed the Force Bill-allowed
Jackson to send U.S. army to collect the tariffs
Looking down the road?
• 1. SC leaders backed down (Compromise of
1833) but, they liked nullification idea.
• WHY?
a.If Congress banned slavery, they
wanted to nullify (cancel) that law.
• Debate over slavery becomes more heated.
2.Tension between North and South grows.
Photo of Andrew Jackson in 1844
(one year before his death)
1767 - 1845