Nullification Crisis

By emmabrooks03

  • Tariff of Abominations

    This was an import tax on manufactured goods put in place in order to protect new industrial and manufacturing industries in New England, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The significance of this was that it created a hardships for the South because of the increase of the price of manufactured goods. As a result of this in 1832, South Carolina wanted to "veto" the tariff, they thought it to be unconstitutional. This led to the beginning of the Nullification Crisis.

  • Webster- Hayne Debates

    This was a debate between Robert Y. Hayne from South Carolina and Daniel Webster from Massachusetts. Some of the issues debated were public land policy, western expansion, and slavery. More importantly the states rights over the federal government. Webster believed that we should do whatever we can to protect the Union because it is what is holding the country together. Hayne believed that the federal government had too much power over the states and the state were "mere petty corporations."

  • Congress and Jackson tried to lower tariff of 1828

    Congress passed and Andrew Jackson signed a bill that would lower the tariff of 1828 but this did not satisfy South Carolina enough. Which led to them adopting the Ordinance of Nullification.

  • Proclamation to the People of South Carolina

    In this Proclamation Andrew Jackson was making it clear that he was against nullification and if he needed to he would use force to protect the laws of the United States. He also wanted to warn the people of South Carolina if they started to obey the nullification they would be in danger. He wanted to appeal to the people of South Carolina that something terrible will end up happening if they try to secede from the Union because of how important it is.

  • Compromise Tariff Act of 1833

    This was an act created by Henry Clay to try and lessen the hardships on the South. The way it was going to do this was by lessening the tax on the items that had tax of over 20 percent the value of the items year by year. The goal was to by 1842, the taxes were to reach the same level as they were in 1816. It didn't clarify the important question of the power conflict between state and federal government.

  • Force Act

    This act was passed by Congress at the same time of the Compromise Tariff Act of 1833. It gave the President the right to use military forces to execute laws.