JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONIAN AMERICA
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New Englanders were more radical than Southerners, as they had been since the days of the American Revolution
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Andrew Jackson favored states’ rights over federal supremacy
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the system of checks and balances was flawed
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economic sectionalism was a serious threat to national unity
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Detailed explanation-1: -What did the tariff controversy of the early 1830s reveal? It showed that the nation faced serious and growing sectional pressures in the years ahead.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1828, Congress passed a high protective tariff that infuriated the southern states because they felt it only benefited the industrialized north. For example, a high tariff on imports increased the cost of British textiles. This tariff benefited American producers of cloth-mostly in the north.
Detailed explanation-3: -The tariff of 1828 raised taxes on imported manufactures so as to reduce foreign competition with American manufacturing. Southerners, arguing that the tariff enhanced the interests of the Northern manufacturing industry at their expense, referred to it as the Tariff of Abominations.
Detailed explanation-4: -Growing disdain between the North and South with regards to slavery, coupled with this new tariff that strengthened the Northern economy while vastly weakening the Southern economy, greatly increased the already omnipresent sectionalism between the regions.