Nullification Crisis

By tsea4523

  • Tariff of 1828

    The Tariff of 1828 was to protect the North and the manufacturers from cheaper goods coming from foreign nations. The tariff placed taxes up to 50% increases on foreign goods. This made the South angry because now the foreign nations that were buying their raw materials were not getting the money they needed to buy these materials because the North was not buying their goods.

  • John C. Calhoun's South Carolina Exposition and Protest

    John C. Calhoun was the South Carolina representative and also Jackson's vice president at the time had been against the tariff of 1828. Which had hurt the Southerners because the foreign nations did not have money to buy the South's raw materials. So Calhoun wrote the South Carolina Exposition and Protest which had declared the tariff unconstitutional and that states can consider the tariff to be null and void in their borders.

  • Webster and Hayne Debate

    A debate in congress between these senators on the state vs federal in terms of government and the power in laws.

  • Tariff of 1832

    The tariff of 1832 was less a tariff but more a response or change of the tariff of 1828. It had lessened the taxes on the manufactured goods coming from the foreign nations to somewhat reasonable prices. But, many were still unhappy because the tariff needed to be completely abolished to help return the South back to a better financial state.

  • South Carolina adopts the Ordinance of Nullification

    Based on the evidence put forth in John C. Calhoun's South Carolina Exposition and Protest individual states could interpret a piece of legislation as null and void if it is oppressive. That is just what South Carolina did they were the only state to do so. The other Southern states agreed but never actually invoked nullification. This had caused lots of attention to gravitate to the state of South Carolina especially when they decided to militarize after invoking nullification.

  • Clay's Tariff Bill

    This was a compromise made between Henry Clay and John Calhoun to form a middle ground between completely opposing the tariff and having a very high tariff. So they settled on having a tariff that had the taxes gradually decrease until 1842 until they reached an average of 20% where they will level out.