Nullification Crisis

By BryantRivera16

  • Tariff of 1824

    It was a protective tariff in the United States designed to protect American industry from cheaper British commodities.
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  • Tariff of 1828

    Protective tariff of imported goods to protect northern industry

  • South Carolina Exposition

    An exposition which stated that if the tariff was not removed, South Carolina would secede.

  • Tariff of 1832

    A protective tariff that reduced the existing tariff as remedy for the conflict created by the previous tariff.

  • Hayne's Counter Proclamation

    Governor Haynes would state that a state, if oppressed by the law, can deem it unconstitutional and void.

  • Jackson's Proclamation against nullification

    Was a written form of Jackson's response to an ordinance by a South Carolina convention about the tariffs.

  • South Carolina Nullification

    A confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government to attempt to declare null and void within the state tariffs of 1828 1832.

  • Clay's Compromise

    Henry Clay and James C. Calhoun would make a tariff called the compromise tariff to resolve the Nullification crisis.

  • The Force Bill

    Authorized President Jackson to use military force against any state that resisted the protective tariff laws. The Force Bill extended executive power.

  • South Carolina Repeal of Nullification

    Would declare that both tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable in South Carolina.