Chapter 11 Extra Flashcards
Who wanted to be president after Jackson
VP Calhoun (south) Secretary of State Van Buren (NY)
Jacksonians
Want to democratize economic opportunity
Political participation
Equal opportunity =\ equal outcomes
Maysville Road Bill
Jackson vetoed
Road entirely in KY
Didn’t believe in spending fed $
Precedent to limit spending fed $ on local projects
Calhoun’s beliefs
Changed from war hawk nationalist to states rights sectionalist
States can challenge unconstitutional federal laws
Foot resolution
Federal govt should restrict western land sales
Sale of public land for revenue would endanger union
Webster Hayne debate
Webster believed in the union, rope of sand speech,
Hayne believed in nullification, liberty>union,
1830
Jefferson’s day dinner event
Jackson announced that he was for the union
Found out that his own VP had written SC Expo and Protest
Tariff of 1832
John Quincy Adams cut rates to take wind out of nullificationists sails
South Carolina ordinance
Forbade collection of duties and rejected previous tariffs of 1828 and 1832
If property seized for failure to pay duties, state of SC would get back 2xs value
Jackson’s response to SC ordinance
Announced intention to enforce tariff but wanted to lower it
Nullification proclamation
Sent fed soldiers to enforce law
Nullification Proclamation
Jackson’s response to SC ordinance
Insulted doctrine of nullification as absurd
Clays compromise tariff
Proposed to gradually reduce tariff till 1842
SC gave up resistance
Force bill
Jackson’s request for permission from congress to send troops for laws re enforcement
Cherokee Nation v GA
GA wanted land to themselves
Claimed land given to Cherokees in previous treaty
Marshall ruled that Cherokees deserve their land
Worcester v GA
Missionaries living w Cherokees forced to obey GA law
Marshall rules in favor of Cherokees
Jackson doesn’t enforce however