Worksheet # 63

Nullification       Aristocrats        Biddle      Pet Banks        Corruption
Force Bill         Texas         Martin Van Buren     Clay's Compromise    Abomination 

1) The law passed by Congress to give Andrew Jackson the power
         to use force if a state tried to secede: ________.
2) Something deeply hated (like tariffs to a southerner):________.
3) A large southwest region in American that went from being
        part of Mexico to a new U.S. state: __________.
4) People of wealth and "high birth":____________.
5) The use of power to make money or influence people rather than
         for civic good: ___________.
6) The idea that a state could declare federal laws unconstitutional
        and therefore void:__________.
7) The man who ran the Bank of the United States and opposed
        President Jackson's attempt to close it:_________.
8) The local banks of states that received government money once
        the National Bank closed: _________.
9) The reduction of tariffs that kept South Carolina from seeking to
         nullify the law: ____________.
10) The New Yorker who became President after Jackson:_________.

Thought Question: Why was the nullification crisis so important:














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