Agenda:
1. Exam Alert: The 1990 AP U.S. History exam DBQ asked students to what extend they agreed with the Jacksonians’ view of themselves as guardians of the Constitution, political democracy, individual liberty, and equality of economic opportunity.
2. Spoils System vs. Civil Service System (discuss last night’s video)
3. Contextualization: Tariffs were a contentious political issue throughout much of the nineteenth century. consider the degree to which both northeastern support for and southern opposition to tariffs were based on efforts to protect and preserve their social institutions and values.
4. The Tariff and The Nullification Crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2M70uXMgOU (6 min)
5. Journal 55 - How did South Carolina justify nullification on constitutional grounds? (10 min)
6. South Carolina claimed states had the right to void a law passed by Congress that treated states or regions unequally. These laws, according to those in favor of nullification, were not only unjust but unconstitutional.
7. Evaluate the outcome of the tariff crisis. Did Jackson act appropriately in handling the crisis? Why was compromise possible in this situation?
*While compromise helped to resolve crises in the early part of the nineteenth century (e.g., Missouri Compromise, nullification crisis), compromise became more difficult to achieve by the mid-nineteenth century.
Home Learning:
TWO IMPORTANT JACKSONIAN POLICIES:
1. The Nullification Crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2O00y1k31A (7 min) LOL
2. War on the Second Bank of the U.S. under two grounds
A. Unconstitutional
B. Gave too much power to private bankers
Journal 56 - Why - and how - did Jackson destroy the Second National Bank?
Begin reading Chapter 11
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