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Nullification Crisis

  • Tariff of Abominations Act

    Tariff of Abominations Act

    This act raised taxes on imported goods, this was done to reduce the competition between foreign and American goods making more people by American goods and in turn this would help the economy.
  • South Carolina Exposition and Protest

    South Carolina Exposition and Protest

    This was a anonymously written this saying that if a state felt that an act passed by the government was unconstitutional they could nullify it. The state of south Carolina was saying that they basically had the right to nullify the Act of tariff of 1828.
  • Nullification Crisis

    Nullification Crisis

    This was by far not the first crisis on the states feeling that something was unconstitutional, however this is the first time that it almost got so bad that it turned into a civil war.
  • Nullification Convention

    Nullification Convention

    This was a meeting on the two tariffs again starting that they were unconstitutional.
  • Ordinance of Nullification

    Ordinance of Nullification

    This basically was saying that the Tariff was null and void and nonbinding in the state of south Carolina.
  • Protectionist tariff

    Protectionist tariff

    This tariff was supposed to stop the conflict that happened burring the other tariff.
  • compromise bill of 1833

    compromise bill of 1833

    This was written by clay and this just enacted that the president could send military's to put down nullification if in South Carolina if needed.
  • Force Bill

    Force Bill

    This gave the president the right to send arms if the state didn't comply with the tariff.