Age of Jackson- Nullification Crisis

Age of Jackson- Nullification Crisis

Open Ended

After analyzing the previous cartoon, what prediction can you make about this issue in Jackson's presidency?

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of protective tariffs?

• to increase the price of American-made goods

• to decrease the price of foreign-made goods

• to make American-made goods more competitive with British goods

Multiple Choice

True or False: Tariffs benefitted Northerners.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: Tariffs benefitted Southerners.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Why did Southerners think the tariffs were "abominable?"

• It only benefitted Northern manufacturers at the cost of Southerners. Southerners had very little industry to protect.

• It only benefitted British manufacturers.

Multiple Choice

Vice President John C. Calhoun of South Carolina believed it was a states' right to be able to-

• nullify, or legally overturn, the tariffs.

• veto the tariffs.

Multiple Choice

The Nullification Crisis was really a matter of different interpretations of which amendment?

• 1st amendment

• 2nd amendment

• 8th amendment

• 10th amendment

Multiple Choice

Those who OPPOSED the idea of nullification, believed that it-

• was a states' right that was supported by the 10th amendment

• was unconstitutional because it violated the idea that federal laws are supreme over state laws.

Multiple Choice

Read carefully: The Nullification Act, passed by South Carolina's state legislature, stated that-

• the tariffs were Illegal (unconstitutional)

• the state would not pay the tariffs

• the state had a right to nullify the tariff

• if the government tried to force them to pay, the state would secede

• all answers are correct

Poll

Poll: Which side do you think President Andrew Jackson will take in the Nullification Crisis?

• He will side with South Carolina because he believed in states' rights.

• He will side with the federal government because he was its president and wanted to prevent a civil war.

Multiple Choice

On the previous slide, the quote from Massachusetts senator Daniel Webster from the Webster-Haynes debate said, "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseperable." Which side of the Nullification Crisis was he on?

• states' rights

• federal supremacy

Multiple Choice

What issue would put the matter of states' rights to the test again in the following years?

• independence

• imperialism

• slavery

• women's suffrage

Open Ended

Evaluate the effectiveness of President Jackson's response to the Nullification Crisis.