JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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They thought tariffs would hurt factory business.
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They thought they favored one region over another.
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They wanted to top foreign countries from selling imports.
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They thought northerners would buy cotton from Europe.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Q. Why did many southern cotton planters oppose tariffs? They believed that tariffs would hurt business in southern factories. They believed that tariffs were unconstitutional because they favored one region over another.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1828, Congress passed a tariff that taxed imports in an effort to protect American industry. Southern states were against this tariff because they were forced to pay higher prices, and they thought it favored the northern states.
Detailed explanation-3: -What was one of the South’s objections to the higher tariffs enacted by Congress? It would make their crops more expensive.
Detailed explanation-4: -Who was John C. Calhoun? Southern political thinker who most prominently justified southern resistance to the Tariff of 1828.
Detailed explanation-5: -The theory of nullification, or the voiding of unwelcome federal laws, provided wealthy slaveholders, who were a minority in the United States, with an argument for resisting the national government if it acted contrary to their interests.