Proclamation Regarding Nullification: Questions
Proclamation Regarding Nullification: Questions
- Tensions were high and tempers were raging, but what do you think would have happened if South Carolina hadn't backed down in the end? Would Jackson have made good on his threat to use the military?
- What kind of issues today might get the president so angry that he'd threaten to use the military on its own citizens?
- This is a critical moment in constitutional history. How was Jackson adding meaning and context to the constitution in the text?
- What got Jackson most angry when South Carolina threatened to secede?
- Using what you already know about Jacksonian Democracy, how do you see Jackson's ideas about political participation and the role of the government being expressed in this document?
- Which of Jackson's arguments did you find most persuasive?
- Was there a way South Carolina could have gone about opposing the tariff that Jackson might have found acceptable?
- How did Jackson managed to present himself as relatively uneducated when he'd been a practicing attorney? (No lawyer jokes, please.)
- Donald Trump has been frequently compared to Andrew Jackson. What similarities do you see? Differences?
- A week before issuing his Proclamation, Jackson delivered an annual address to Congress that was aggressively pro-states' rights. How do your square that with his Proclamation?