
Couldn't, Shouldn't Be President
The Victor Davis Hanson Show
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Andrew Jackson and the Force Bill
Hemney clay didn't like andrew jackson, he worked for him. Both agreed that northern mercantile traders and industrialists wanted no tariff so they could protect their industries from europe. Those high tariffs hurt the south, because the south had to import all their industrial goods. So the south, in a weird way, had a liberal idea of trade. They wanted no tariffs. And then when south carolina said, you know, we're just going to ignore the federal government, clay tried to reason with them,. But it was jackson, also a in the south, that said, no, they're either going to follow the law an going to send troops down
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