Chapter 9:

1. How did the promotion of a national American System encourage westward expansion and the unification of state economies?
2. Summarize the section titled, Debates over the American System, in your own words.
3. Why did the North support the Tariff of 1816, and why did the South generally oppose it?
4. Why did the establishment of the Bank of the United States generate regional tensions between the western frontier regions and the eastern seaboard?

Chapter 10:

1. How did President Andrew Jackson respond to South Carolina’s nullification position?
2. How was the nullification crisis a rehearsal for the Civil War?
3. Summarize the section titled, Nullification, in your own words.
4. What is nullification and what did South Carolinians, represented by John Calhoun, want to nullify?