New school history of the United States . serious controversy between the State of Georgia and the CentralGovernment early engagedthe attention of Mr. grew out of the measurestaken by Georgia to extendits authority over the lands ofthe Cherokees. 5. During Adamss admin-istration two former Presi-dents—his father John Adams,and Thomas Jefferson—diedon the fiftieth anniversary ofthe Declaration of Indepen- * John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) was born in South Carolina. His parents hadmoved from South-western Virginia. He was Vice-President in 1825, and again in1829. He resigned his offi
New school history of the United States . serious controversy between the State of Georgia and the CentralGovernment early engagedthe attention of Mr. grew out of the measurestaken by Georgia to extendits authority over the lands ofthe Cherokees. 5. During Adamss admin-istration two former Presi-dents—his father John Adams,and Thomas Jefferson—diedon the fiftieth anniversary ofthe Declaration of Indepen- * John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) was born in South Carolina. His parents hadmoved from South-western Virginia. He was Vice-President in 1825, and again in1829. He resigned his office, and was elected United States Senator, in 1831. He ad-vocated extreme State Rights doctrines (Calhoun doctrine), and was the leader ofnullification in 1832. He was also regarded as the author of secession. t Henry Clay (1777-1852) was a poor boy, born in Virginia. He setUed at Lexing-ton, Kentucky, in 1797. He was the strenuous advocate of a protective tariff, andof what was termed the American System, favoring home JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. ANDREW JACKSONS ADMINISTRATION, dence. Another President, Mr. Monroe, expired five yearslater, on the same day of the same month, 6. Bitter opposition was provoked throughout theSouthern States by an increase of duties on such importedarticles as came into competition with home Carolina and Georgia denounced the Tariff Act as unconstitutional, as well as unjust and oppressive, and con-sequently not obligatory on the States, if they thought^ properto resist it. The feeling excited by this act threatened, afew years later, to divide the Union. 7. Mr. Adams was not elected President a secondtime. He was succeeded by General Jackson, who receivedmore than two-thirds of the electoral votes. THE ADMINISTRATION OF ANDREW JACKSON.— 1829-1837. 8. Few of the Presidents since Washington pro-duced such an enduring impression on the pubHc mindas Andrew Jackson. He hadalready attracted notice byhis conduct in the Creek
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