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Tariff of 1828
Andrew Jackson enacted the Tariff of 1828 which imposed charges or taxes on imported goods. This was done in effort of safeguarding the newly booming industries in the Northern and Western States. A variety of people, mostly from Southern states, disagreed and opposed this tariff because it would hurt their state financially and believed it only helped the industrialization North. They also faced greater living sciences as a result of being unable to purchase as many foreign goods. -
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
In response to the Tariff of 1828, which John C. Calhoun believed was unfair to the South and established the notion that the states may override federal laws, he wrote the South Carolina Exposition and Protest to protest against the Tariff of 1828. Even if nothing seem to occur, the statesmen eventually implemented the idea when they drafted the Ordinance of Nullification after the Tariff of 1832. On December 19, the state declared the Tariff of 1832 unconstitutional. -
Tariff of 1832
The Tariff of 1832, which imposed charges on imports like the Tariff of 1828, was a tariff created to address some of the complains of the South over the tariff of 1828. Although the Tariff reduced duties and addressed some of the challenges the Southern States were having, other Southerners felt that it was insufficient, which gave rise to the Ordinance of Nullification. -
Ordinance of Nullification
South Carolina approved the Ordinance of Nullification, which proclaimed the tariffs to be illegal and unconstitutional and threatened to secede from the Union if they were not repealed. Along with the other state rights like the sale of land and slavery, it raised questions about whether states may invalidate federal laws and prompted President Jackson to reply. In response, Jackson requested the Congress to allow intervention of the military if South Carolina didn't respect the tariffs. -
Compromise Tariff of 1833
To find a middle ground in the nullification debate, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun proposed that the tariff stay in place but reduce by 1842 to the same tariff level as was specified in the Tariff of 1816. The compromise was agreed to by all sides of the conflict albeit the northern states opposed it more so than the Southern ones. -
Ordinance of Nullification revoked
Only 14 days after the Compromise Tariff of 1833 was enacted, the Ordinance of Nullification was repealed, and both parties believed they had won the battle against nullification. To demonstrate that they still believed they were right, South Carolina negated the Force Bill just three days after revoking the Ordinance of Nullification. Nationalists grew to love President Jackson, and the majority of South started to realize how vulnerable they were to the Northerners.