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Tarriff of Abominations
Andrew Jackson was confronted by South Carolina regarding the issue of a protective tariff on their cotton. They asked if Jackson could use his presidential power granted to him to change the Tariff of Abominations Act because it only protects industrial businesses in Northern states leaving the agricultural businesses in South Carolina Poorer. -
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
In 1832, John C. Calhoun, Jackson's vice president, suggested that South Carolina had the right to nullify "oppressive national legislation". Congress later passed a bill that Jackson signed that revised and edited the 1828 tariff. However, this did not meet the results that the South Carolinians yearned. So, later on, South Carolina adopted the Ordinance of Nullification declared that both tariffs were "null and void". With the Ordinance, South Carolina threatened to raise their own military.