Jackson

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Jackson Sectional Conflict

• I. Constitutional Views
• A. Strict interpreter in regard to internal
  improvements

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• B. Maysville Road Bill
• 1. Plan to extend Cumberland Road inside Kentucky
  
• 2. Jackson vetoed Bill
• a. Unconstitutional- Federal government no right
  to spend money on local transportation

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• 3. South was in favor of Jackson
  did not support internal improvements
• Road was Henry Clays state, a political
  adversary of Jackson.

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• Sectional Issues
• I. Daniel Webster Robert
  Y. Haynes Debate
• A. Land Sales
• 1. Northeast wanted to limit sales in order to
  keep labor
• 2. South West supported sales

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• B.Robert Y. Hayne(South Carolina)
• 1. Supported nullification
• 2. Followed John C. Calhoun
• 3. States formed the union could leave
  it

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• C. Daniel Webster
• 1. Nullification would split the union
• 2. Constitution rested on the people not
  states
• 3. Ended Speech
• Liberty and Union, now and forever one and
  inseparable

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• D. Impact of Debate
• 1. 40,000 copies printed
• 2. Printed in school books
• 3. Read by Abraham Lincoln
• 4. Influenced Northern Southern views toward
  the Union

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• Jackson was a states rights man, but did not
  deviate from upholding the Union
• Our Union it must be preserved

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• John C. Calhoun
• The Union, next to our liberty, most dear