because their agricultural economy was starting to slow down, was losing political influence.

With technological advances our nation began to grow. The north's industrial economy was

thriving and provided the rest of the nation with jobs and manufactured goods. With all of the

changes happening disaster could be everted only so many times.

In 1829 Andrew Jackson took office as the President and his Vice President was John C.

Calhoun. Calhoun was from South Carolina, and South Carolina had a little problem with the

tariff that were placed upon them. They call this tariff the "tariff of abomination". To meet the

challenge of his state Calhoun came up with nullification. Nullification was created though the

idea that the states made the government though the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Nullification stated that the states had final say over the courts or Congress. The idea was that if

Congress passed a law or bill that didn't seem constitutional to the state, then the state could

nullify it, or deny its existence. As the controversy grew a debate broke out in the Senate in

liberty most dear." He was speaking for the states, "the union, next to the states liberty most

and now magazines being issued and bought, sectionalism was showing itself again. For the

with "Liberty and Union, now and forever, on and inseparable." In saying this he stated that the

With the north's industry growing, its transportation, communication and technological

there was a need for a workforce. At first it was the native born workforce, those who worked in

Most of them were to just connect canals to each other. Most attempts at making canals were in

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