List the first 5 Presidents and one issue they dealt with while in office.

This is a daily grade! Ten points each!!

Warm-up

The Age of Jackson• Indian Policies• Bank Crisis• Jacksonian Democracy• Nullification Crisis

• 7th president• War hero of

1812• Tennessean• Self-made

man

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837

It was said that Andrew Jackson was “as strong as a hickory stick.”

Nicknamed “Old Hickory”

1828 – Political Party Split!!

Democratic – RepublicansAndrew Jackson

National RepublicansJohn Quincy

Adams

Distrusted big government Supported by immigrants, laborers, frontiersmen

Andrew Jackson & The Democratic Republicans

Believed in strong central government

Wanted to builds roads National bank Supported by merchants and

farmers

National Republicans

Shift in politics to the Common Man

Views left a legacy on politics

He represented a government by the people

Election of 1829 – Andrew Jackson won!

Tariff – tax on imported goods

Tariff Crisis!!!

Which section of the U.S. would support a tariff? WHY?

Tariff Crisis!!

Which section of the U.S. would reject a tariff? WHY?

Tariff Crisis!!

People in the northeast would SUPPORT a tariff.

People in the south would REJECT a tariff.

I can explain the Nullification Crisis

Why would people in the northeast support tariff?

A tariff would force the south to buy American made products.

I can describe the Nullification Crisis

Why would people in the south REJECT a tariff?

The tariff would raise prices on American goods.

I can describe the Nullification Crisis

To cancel

Nullify -

To break away

Secede -

THE SOUTH PROTESTS the TARIFF!!

They want to nullify the tariff! Some southerners want to secede.

I can describe the Nullification Crisis

Read page 339 – The Nullification Crisis

The states believed that the federal government was created by the states.

The states should decide of a federal law was constitutional.

I can explain states rights!

If you don’t believe in states rights, who do you think should decide on the constitutionality of a federal law?

How is this belief supported?

I can explain states rights!

“Liberty, Union, now and forever one and

inseparable.” **Daniel Webster

“Our federal union must be preserved.”

Andrew Jackson

What is Jackson’s view on nullification?

Andrew Jackson believed that the union is more important that the states when overruling the constitutionality of a law.

I can describe the Nullification Crisis