USA HISTORY

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

AGE OF THE COMMON MAN

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Because . . . the power to protect manufacture[r]s is nowhere expressly granted to Congress, nor can [it] be considered as necessary and proper to carry into effect any specified power, it seems to be expressly reserved to the state. *This excerpt is from a protest issued by the South Carolina legislature and addressed to the U.S. Congress. Which of these political issues was it related to?
A
*Trail of Tears
B
*The Nullification Crisis
C
*Election of 1828
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -19, the state legislature issued South Carolina Exposition and Protest, which declared the tariff unconstitutional. Secretly drafted by Vice Pres. John C. Calhoun (whose name did not appear on it), the paper outlined the state’s grievances and furthered the nullification doctrine.

Detailed explanation-2: -The document was a protest against the Tariff of 1828, also known as the Tariff of Abominations. It stated also Calhoun’s Doctrine of nullification, i.e., the idea that a state has the right to reject federal law, first introduced by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in their Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 began with the passage of the Tariff of 1828 (better known as the Tariff of Abominations) which sought to protect industrial products from competition with foreign imports.

Detailed explanation-4: -A staunch defender of the institution of slavery, and a slave-owner himself, Calhoun was the Senate’s most prominent states’ rights advocate, and his doctrine of nullification professed that individual states had a right to reject federal policies that they deemed unconstitutional.

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