The Nullification Crisis

Vocabulary:

a tax imposed by the government on goods imported from another country

• tariff

• secede

• frontier

• capitalism

Vocabulary:

to withdraw from an organization or alliance

• tariff

• secede

• frontier

• capitalism

Which group would have been most in favor of the Tariff of 1828?

• Northerners

• Southerners

• Western frontier settlers

• Native Americans

What caused the nullification crisis?

• removal policies

• election of 1828

• northern trade policies

• southern opposition to tariffs

The Nullification Crisis occurred when

• the Supreme Court declared the tariff laws null and void.

• Congress refused Jackson's request to repeal the tariff laws.

• South Carolina threatened to secede if the tariff laws were enforced.

• Jackson forced South Carolina leave the United States.

What was Jackson's response to the Nullification Crisis?

• He admitted that the states could nullify federal laws.

• He agreed that South Carolina had the right to secede.

• He offered to raise tariffs to keep South Carolina in the Union.

• He threatened to use force against South Carolina.

During the Nullification Crisis, what was really being tested?

• the right to ignore Supreme Court decisions

• the rights of states to override federal laws

• the right of states to secede from the United States

• the right to pass federal laws that benefited certain regions

People:

Who was Andrew Jackson's Vice President, who believed that states had the right to nullify (cancel) federal laws?

• John Quincy Adams

• John C. Calhoun

• Henry Clay

• Daniel Webster

The term despotism refers to

• a crisis over bank deposits

• unchecked power of a ruler

• removal of Native Americans

• taxes taken on goods within a country

What event does this political cartoon illustrate?

• The Nullification Crisis

• The Spoils System

• The Trail of Tears

• Jackson's Inauguration