Union at Risk Jacksonian Democracy, States' Rights and the Nullification Crisis

Name: Union at Risk Jacksonian Democracy, States' Rights and the Nullification Crisis
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ISBN: 9780195061871

ISBN-10: 019506187X

ISBN-13: 9780195061871

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Authors: Richard E. Ellis

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The Nullification Crisis of 1832-33 is undeniably the most important major event of Andrew Jackson's two presidential terms. Attempting to declare null and void the high tariffs enacted by Congress in the late 1820s, the state of South Carolina declared that it had the right to ignore those national laws that did not suit it. Responding swiftly and decisively, Jackson issued a Proclamation reaffirming the primacy of the national government and backed this up with a Force Act,allowing him to enforce the law with troops. Although the conflict was eventually allayed by a compromise fashioned by Henry Clay, the Nullification Crisis raises paramount issues in American political history. The…

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List price: $53.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/28/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




An Ambiguous Heritage: States' Rights in America, 1776-1828



Andrew Jackson, States' Rights, and Majority Rule



Andrew Jackson, Nullification, and the South



The Proclamation



Georgia and the Nullification Crisis



Virginia and the Nullification Crisis



New York and the Nullification Crisis



"The Compromise"



The Nullification Crisis and Jacksonian Democracy


Notes


Bibliography


Index