Directions Grab the TWO sheets of paper on the bookshelf. Grab your SPIRAL Table of Contents, Nullification Crisis, pg. 11 Begin working on your BELL-RINGER, you will have 3 minutes after the bell to complete it!

TSWBAT analyze and explain the impact of the Trail of Tears.

Review What is the Spoil System? What is the Kitchen Cabinet? Giving political jobs and favors to your political supporters. What is the Kitchen Cabinet? A group of unofficial advisors that met with Jackson in the kitchen of the white house to inform him on politics. They were unqualified and rough group of men. What is the Indian Removal Act? Forcibly removed Native Americans WEST of the Mississippi River. What is the Trail of Tears? The forced removal of the Cherokee from their homelands in which over 4,000 of them would die!

The Age of Jackson

The Nullification Crisis Tariff Bill of 1828

Congress passed the Tariff Bill of 1828 which was the highest import tax ever. This was a “protective tariff” because it was designed to protect U.S. industry by increasing tariffs on goods from Europe. What is an import? Export? What is a tariff?

This tariff hurt Southern planters because they depended on trade with Europe. The high tariff meant Southerners still sold their cotton to Europe, but paid more for European imports. Oral/Choral Response: What does the protective tariff promote?

They called it the “Tariff of Abominations” They called it the “Tariff of Abominations”. An abomination is something hated. Table Talk: Predict how you think the Southerners will respond to this tariff? What do farmers usually do when they are losing money? Vice President John C. Calhoun was from South Carolina and, like most Southerners, believed in the idea of “states’ rights”.

States’rights is the right of states to limit the power of the federal government. South Carolina passed the Nullification Act and declared the tariff illegal. Nullify means cancel.

South Carolina threatened to secede if the tariff was not lifted. Is this the first time a southern state has threatened to secede? Secede means leave. What are Jackson’s options? If you were Jackson, what would you do?

Nullification Crisis Jackson was furious. He said, “I will hang the first man of them I can get my hands on from the first tree I can find.” South Carolina backed down and the crisis ended, but the tensions between the North and the South would remain. What vocabulary term could be used to describe the tensions between the North and the South? How is the nullification crisis similar to the Whiskey Rebellion? How is it different?

What does this political cartoon say about Jackson?

What does this political cartoon say?

How do you feel about Jackson’s political policies?

The Bank of the United States What does this quote tell you about how Jackson feels about the bank? "You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.“ - Andrew Jackson

The Bank of the U.S. was created by Federalist Alexander Hamilton. The Bank’s purpose was to regulate economic policies. What part of Hamilton’s Financial Plan was design to increase revenue?

Jackson thought the Bank was too powerful. He thought bank president Nicholas Biddle and bank administrators used the bank for their own profit. Which other President had similar views about the corruption of the National Bank?

Jackson vowed, “I will kill it!” The Bank cut back on loans which hurt farmers in the West. Jackson vowed, “I will kill it!” Jackson vetoed the Bank when its charter was up for renewal.

Demonstration of Learning Given a response card, correctly analyze and explain one social, economic, and political impact of Andrew Jackson’s presidency on the new republic.