Live Lesson-President Jackson: Tariffs & State Rights

PRESIDENT JACKSON: TARIFFS & STATES RIGHTS

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Multiple Select

Why did the federal government create the Tariff of 1828? (Choose two)

• To stay out of debt

• To protect American jobs in the North

• To protect American jobs in the South

• To maintain neutrality

• To hurt the Southern economy

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Why did the tariff make businessmen in the South angry? (Choose two)

• They knew Britain wouldn’t want to pay the penalty protective tax

• Southern states would lose money.

• They wanted to maintain neutrality

• They wanted to hurt the Northern economy

Multiple Choice

Which political leader from South Carolina argued that states could nullify federal laws and declare it unconstitutional, and wrote a theory of nullification?

• John Quincy Adams

• Daniel Webster

• Henry Clay

• John C. Calhoun

Multiple Choice

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved for the states respectively, or to the people." - Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution.

Conflicting interpretations of this amendment played a major role in the

• Bank War

• Nullification Crisis

• Corrupt bargain

• XYZ Affair

Multiple Choice

South Carolina threatened to cancel the protective tariff against Britain and secede (separate) from the Union. This was called -

• The States' Rights Crisis

• The Nullification Crisis

• The Crisis of the Tariff

• The Tariff of Abomination

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Multiple Choice

Which statement below reflects South Carolina's threat to nullify the Tariff of 1828?

• A state has the right to overrule an Act passed by Congress. After all the national government is supposed to share power with the states.

• The states do share power with the national government, but the Constitution says the national government has Supremacy.

Multiple Choice

Which Constitutional issue led to the Nullification Crisis of 1832?

• Do courts have the power to rule on the constitutionality of state laws?

• Does the president have the authority to use the military to enforce the law?

• Does the federal government have the authority to enact laws regarding slavery?

• Do states have the power to declare a federal law unconstitutional?

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Fill in the blank.

The primary question surrounding the 1832 Nullification Crisis was:

Can a _______ overturn a federal law?

Multiple Choice

What was President Andrew Jackson's response to the Nullification Crisis in South Carolina?

• Use military force to make the state obey federal laws

• Force the Supreme Court to rule in favor of the federal government

• Allow South Carolina to secede from the Union

• Cancel the Tariff of 1828

Multiple Choice

*Washington = The Whiskey Rebellion

*Jackson = The Nullification Crisis

How was President Jackson’s domestic policy similar to President Washington’s domestic policy about solving problems with American citizens?

• They both asked the Supreme Court to step in

• They both were ready to use military force against American citizens

• They both returned to being generals in the army

• They both practiced neutrality with domestic issues

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President Jackson thought the National Bank gave an unfair monopoly (control) that favored _____ ____ in the North.

Multiple Choice

President Jackson ordered the National Bank to place its money in

• farmer's pockets

• Indian Territory

• The First Bank of America

• state banks

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