One Additional Assignment

Students - sometime tomorrow evening I will post the remainder of today's class along with the answers and some comments to the Missouri Compromise and the Nullification Questions.  Please make sure you have filed those assignments in your notebook next week.

I would like to add to your assignment list for this week one item.  I was not able to get to 'Jackson's response to the People of SC' in class today and I think that's an important document for you to read to round out this lesson.  So, please open the link to an excerpt from this document HERE and print out pages 2, 3, and 4 only.

Read the excerpts and answer only the first and last questions on the chart at the end.  Once you have finished that  read the  following paragraph from Jackson's response:

"How is it that the most perfect of these several modes of union should now be considered as a mere league that may be dissolved at pleasure?  It is from an abuse of terms.  Compact is used as synonymous with league, although the true term is not employed, because it would at once show the fallacy of the reasoning.  It would not do to say that our Constitution was only a league, but it is labored to prove it a compact (which, in one sense it is), and then to argue that as a league is a compact, every compact between nations must, of course, be a league, and that from such an engagement every sovereign power has a right to recede.  But it has been shown that in this sense the States are not soverighn, and that even if they were, and the national Constitution had been formed by compact, there would be no right in any one State to exonerate itself from the obligation."

Think about what you have learned in logic class thus far this year.  See if you can find and identify the faulty logic at work here.  Be prepared to discuss this paragraph during the first part of logic on Tueday.  I hope ot sit in on the discussion to hear your thoughts and learn from you all!

Nullification Crisis Assignment

This assignment is similar to the Missouri Compromise assignment in that to answer the questions you will need to use interactive maps, text of actual documents, and this time I'm also going to provide you with a chart.

In class we will put what you've learned from both of these assignments together and further discuss the commercial differences of the North and South and the widening rift that was continuing to grow between them.  We will focus especially on South Carolina and Calhoun (who Jackson did not murder, btw - he said one of the things he regretted in his life was NOT hanging Calhoun!).  We will strive to really understand why these tariffs made more serious than ever the threat of secession.  I want also to make sure you have a clear understanding of what 'nullification' means - this was not the first appearance of the idea of nullification, but it was the most serious.

Print out the assignment HERE.

Tariff of 1828 is HERE - the tariff begins at the bottom of the page.  You'll have to click 'next image' to page through the book containing the text of this tariff.

Tariff of 1832 is HERE - also beginning at the bottom of the page.

Interactive Maps of Slave Crops in the American South are HERE.  There are 5 pages of this website for you to go through and use as a reference for your questions - just click "Next" at the bottom of the page.  You have to click the timeline at the bottom of each image to reveal the changes over time.

Chart showing Occupational Distribution of 1820-1860 is HERE.

The South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification can be found HERE.