Jackson Dbq

Jackson was perceived as a “Man of the people”, despite wealth and slaves, his backwoods upbringing, military hero, lack of education made the people feel like he was one of them. He took that role to heart and tried to keep the government’s role out of the economy and did not want a big central government. In doing so he created a division between rural farmers and the industrialist. One of issues Jackson created was the Tariff of abominations, a 1828 protective tariff or tax on imports. This angered many southern free traders which increased their cost on goods required to run their business and plantations while they received less on the goods they were producing for export. John Calhoun had by 1832 resigned as Vice President and returned to South Carolina. He was appointed to the U.S. Senate by the States legislature. Calhoun authored two documents to undermine the Abomination Tariff that would eventually be referred to as the Nullification Act. He insisted that since the states had created the Federal Government by ratifying the Constitution states were sovereign and had every right to declare any Federal law the disagreed with null and void. Another issue Jackson encountered was the Second Bank. He strongly felt the banks were a means of corruption. He felt banks were unconstitutional and violated the rights of the people. The “second-party system” was the rivalry between Whigs and Democrats. The Whigs included industrialists, merchants, and farmers who favored stimulus to commerce. Democrats included smaller farmers, wage workers, and declining gentry—individuals left behind by the new market economy.
Antifederalist and Jackson felt that a stronger government threatened the sovereignty and prestige of the states or localities. Individuals feared new government threatened their personal