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Raise the taxes on imported goods up to 50%. It was also targeting items that were imported frequently in the industrial states in New England.
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It was a protest against the Tariff of Abomination and also states the idea of Calhoun that states could declare national laws to be unconstitutional.
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Webster argues the point of nationalism and the federal points overstates.
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To nullify the Tariff of 1828
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To persuade the South Carolina citizens that the government is not concerned about them and to repeal the Ordinance of Nullification
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President Andrew Jackson issued a Proclamation to the People of South Carolina that allowed the states to have the right to nullify a federal law and declare it unconstitutional.
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Gave the president the power to use the military power to enforce the collection of import duties if a state was to ever refuse to comply with the federal tariffs.
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This Act had demanded that import taxes would gradually be cut over the next decade until 1842, they matched the levels set in the Tariff of 1816 which was an average of 20%.