Social Sciences and History / Unit 1 SSH 0028 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Nullification, the Bank War, and the Whigs
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The idea
South Carolina met the Tariff of eighteen twenty-eight with nullification, the claim that a state could void federal law. Jackson faced it down; a compromise tariff of eighteen thirty-three lowered rates, brokered by Clay according to the witness, not the anchor.
In practice
Jackson vetoing the Second Bank and removing its deposits.
Where people slip
The Bank War produced the Whigs, whose program was Clay's American System.
Your place on the trail
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