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Tariff of Abominations
The Tariff of 1828 raised the tax rate drastically especially on imported goods from New England. The point of the tariff was to protect northern and western agricultural products from the competition with imports but in the South caused the living cost. Since the South relied on cheap imported goods such as tools from Britain. -
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
John C. Calhoun articulated the doctrine "South Carolina Exposition and Protest" to state the state’s right to reject and nullify federal laws within its borders if they are deemed unconstitutional. As he became a sectionalist. -
Webster Hayne Debate
Webster argues that the federal government has the right over the states. Hayne argued that the states should have the right to question the federal government. -
Ordinance of Nullification
The Ordinance of Nullification was adopted by South Carolina in which they proclaimed that the tariffs were null and void in the state and if the federal government enforced these tariffs that they would secede from the nation. As the state argued that the US Constitution gave states the right to block the enforcement of federal law. -
Jackson's Proclamation to the People of South Carolina
Jackson believed that the people had power and that if they went against the state government. They could make changes so that the state adopts the tariff. -
Clay's Tariff Bill
The Tariff of 1833 was a protective tariff in the United States designed to protect American industry from cheaper British commodities. It reverted the previous tariffs so the tax value was reasonable. Henry Clay proposed this to make the rates moderate and not as heavy as they were. -
Force Act
The Force Act allowed and gave the president the power to use the military to enforce the collection of import duties if a state refused to comply with federal tariffs. Making it that states had to pay the tariffs and they would ignore them as there was now consequences. -
South Carolina Repeal of Nullification
It declared that the tariffs of both 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable in South Carolina as Congress passed the new negotiated tariff satisfactory to South Carolina. South Carolina repealed the ordinance since they didn't want to deal with the military force.