JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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southern states to become more reliant on slave labor
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northern and southern states to focus on agricultural production
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sectional differences between northern and southern states
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congressional laws restricting the use of child labor
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Detailed explanation-1: -Tariffs are a tax levied on imported goods and were the dominant source of the federal government’s revenue in the 19th century. Tariffs were also used for protectionist purposes, benefiting largely northern manufacturing businesses and effectively raising the costs to southern agricultural exporting industries.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: Northern industrialists favored protective tariffs because they allowed the manufactured goods they produced domestically to be sold at a lower cost than foreign goods imported into the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -The tariff sought to protect northern and western agricultural products from competition with foreign imports; however, the resulting tax on foreign goods would raise the cost of living in the South and would cut into the profits of New England’s industrialists.
Detailed explanation-4: -The tariff was so unpopular in the South that it generated threats of secession. John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson’s vice president and a native of South Carolina, proposed the theory of nullification, which declared the tariff unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable.