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Regional Differences and Controversies during Jackson's Presidency

Explore economic disparities, tariff clashes, states' rights debates, national bank opposition, and controversies like the Indian Removal Act.

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Regional Differences and Controversies during Jackson's Presidency

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  1. Chapter 10 Andrew Jackson

  2. Regional Differences Grow during Jackson’s Administration • North • Economy based on manufacturing • Support for tariffs: American goods could be sold at lower prices than could British goods • Opposed sale of public lands: encouraged laborers to move west

  3. Regional differences • South • Economy based on agriculture • Opposition to tariffs, which increased the cost of imported goods • Cash crops • slavery

  4. Regional differences • West • Emerging economy: mostly farms, grew many crops • Support for internal improvements (roads, canals) and the sale of public lands

  5. Tariff of Abominations • North wanted a tariff on imported woolen goods • Protect industries from foreign competition

  6. British companies were driving American ones out of business with their cheep manufactured goods • Tariff was so high that importing woolen goods was impossible

  7. South was outraged • Called the new tariff the Tariff of Abominations

  8. States Rights • Some southern states wanted to disregard the tariff even though it was a federal law • Previous tariffs had severely damaged the economy of the South • John C. Calhoun (Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis is named after him)

  9. States Rights Debate • Virginia and Kentucky resolutions: Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional • United States is one nation not a pact of independent states • South Carolina enacted the Nullification Act to void tariffs • Congress passed a lower tariff compromise • States rights controversy continues until the Civil War

  10. Jackson and the National Bank • Opposed the Second Bank of the United States • He believed it was unconstitutional: only states should have banking power • Southern states opposed the bank • They believed it only helped the wealthy

  11. National Bank • In McCulloch v. Maryland, the Supreme Court ruled the bank was constitutional • Jackson vetoed the renewal of the Bank’s charter in 1832

  12. Panic of 1837

  13. Cherokee Nation • Cherokees adopted white culture • Had own government and writing system developed by Sequoya.

  14. Cherokee • Georgia took their land • Cherokees sued the state • Supreme Court ruled in the Cherokees favor • Worcester v. Georgia • Jackson sided with Georgia and took no action to enforce the ruling • Violated his presidential oath to uphold the laws of the land.

  15. Indian Removal Act • In 1838, U.S. troops forced Cherokees on an 800 mile march to Indian Territory in what is now present day Oklahoma.

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  17. Review Discussion • http://youtu.be/LNzDj-EPtgQ • Was Jackson a good president? • Was he successful? • What type of person was Jackson? • What do you think of him?

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