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Major differences between north and south?. NORTH. SOUTH. Nullification Crisis. Class notes. Understanding the Nullification crisis. NORTH. SOUTH. Beginning of the 19 th century. Nation was more or less uniformly agricultural Support for tariffs, taxes on imported goods, was universal
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Major differences between north and south? NORTH SOUTH
Nullification Crisis Class notes
Understanding the Nullification crisis NORTH SOUTH
Beginning of the 19th century • Nation was more or less uniformly agricultural • Support for tariffs, taxes on imported goods, was universal • Tariffs were a major source of income for the federal government
As the Country Grows • Support for tariffs became more regional • North wanted high tariffs • South opposed high tariffs
Trouble brews • 1824 – tariff raised to 35% over Southern opposition • 1828 – tariff raised to 50%
John c. Calhoun • Government theory – Congress only had power to pass laws that were for the common good • States could nullify any unjust laws within their borders • South Carolina – refused to collect tariff of 1828 and 1832 (35%) • President Andrew Jackson threatened to send federal troops into the state to collect the tariff
Henry clay • Compromise Tariff of 1833
AP PARTS ANALYSIS A - authorP – place and timeP – prior knowledgeA - audienceR - reasonT – the main ideaS - significance
A Grievance That Didn’t Make It Into the Declaration of Independence He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium (something that brings disgrace) of INFIDEL (non-Christian) powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted (sold) his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable (evil) commerce.
The Civil War-Beginnings In November of 1860, __________________________ was elected President of the United States. Soon after his election, _____________________ became the first Southern state to ______________, or withdraw, from the Union. This state was soon joined by six others, and these states formed a new government, the _____________ ____________________ of ________________, or the Confederacy. The total of states in rebellion eventually reached _____. The states used the doctrine of ______ ______ to justify their withdrawal. On April 12, ______, troops from the ______________ fired on troops stationed at ___________, South Carolina. The Civil War had begun. Over the next four years, more than 600,000 Americans would die in the conflict.