Essay On National And State Government

National and state governments are two different governments. They each have their own ways of running things because of their differences like one is for the state its for and the other being for the United States. Now they don’t always agree with each other, but they have come up with some solutions to help nation wise or state wise. The definition for the national government is any political organization that is put in place to maintain control of a nation for example the United States. As for a state government it is the government of a country subdivision in a federal form of government which shares political power with the federal or national government. Of course the national government is much more higher and important because they

Andrew Jackson’s presidency congress passed a tariff that was high on British textile imports. While this benefited the American producers of cloth (mostly in the North) it made the English buyers not buy the raw cotton they were purchasing from America. As if that wasn 't enough this tariff increased the final cost of finished goods for American buyers. This angered many southerners (as this is where the tariff was implemented in) and they looked to Vice President John C. Calhoun from South Carolina to take a stand in their anger towards how bad the tariff was making things. Now the reason for them to look towards the Vice President of South Carolina was because he was part of the State government which had nothing to do with federal government which in the first place was the cause for all of this. On 1833 Henry Clay, a congress man, was able to revise the tariff with a compromise bill which was basically just a new tariff that was better then the last one. Summing it all up congress passed a tariff on the south, people didn 't like it so they turned to their local state government for them to speak up and the state government spoke to the federal government and finally they came up with something everyone could benefit

Slavery was around for many years and they were used to do all the work for their “owners”. They were often mistreated, beaten, raped, overworked, etc. the list goes on and on. Slavery was basically another form of jail because they didn 't really have a choice or say in anything because they were considered “nothings” and just people who would do all the work for their “owners” for little to no money almost like pets basically. Now while states allowed this some were against owning slaves so this became an issue that the national and state governments had to hear about. While this issue went about for about 3 to 4 years finally in 1865 the thirteenth amendment was passed to the United States constitution by congress and on January, 31 1865 it was finally ratified after that slavery was abolished. This conflict in particular was not a walk in the park and didn 't last just a couple months or a year, this went about for awhile until the issue was brought about to the federal government and finally solved. That wasn’t the only thing that African Americans had to fight for because they had another issue coming their