Nullification Crisis

By SaraC26
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    Nullification Crisis

  • Tariff of 1828

    Protective tariff on imported goods to protect northern industry

  • South Carolina exposition

    Emphasized that Tariff was unconstitutional

  • Indian Removal Act

    Law that allowed for the relocation American Indians

  • Hayne Webster debate

    Webster wanted nationalism and Hayne debate over state rights

  • Tariff of 1832

    Reduced Tariff rates to 35%, help pacify protest from the southerners but failed

  • Election Of 1832

    Andrew Jackson wins presidency against Henry Clay

  • Ordinance of Nullification

    voided the tariffs of 1828 and 1832

  • South Carolina Nullification

    The south declared that they had the right to nullify tariffs and any law passed by the government.

  • Nullification Proclamation

    Highlight federal rights over the state rights on the issue of Tariffs

  • Force Bill

    authorized the use of military power against resisting states and rejected the Doctrine of Nullification.

  • Soth Carolina repeal of Nullification

    They called repeal on their nullification ordinance being dismissed.

  • Compromise Tariff of 1833

    Slowly reduced other tariffs