Timeline: Nullification Crisis

By holdenhudnell81

  • jhonccy calhooons consity and protest

    calhoon and jackson hate each other over the teriffs and they end up being rivals and calhoon reigns from vice presidency.

  • tariff of Abominations

    tariff of Abominations
    This Tariff was designed to protect the American Industry from cheaper British goods and it put taxes on raw materials like tobacco and cotton and it hurt the south a lot because the south was trading a lot of raw material outside of the U.S and since the South greatly disapproved of the tariff and that's why it was called tariff of Abominations and it also increased the duties to Northerners and boosted their economy.

  • Hayne Webster debate

    Webster is nationalist.

    Hayne is sectionalist with SC

  • the forcebill/force act

    congress gives Jackson the power to use the military to force federal laws like to enforce the tariff.

  • tariff of 1832

    Congress passed a bill that revised the tariff of Abominations of 1828 in 1832. this revised tariff amended many acts that were imposing duties on imports the revisions occurred to satisfy the people of South Carolina but it still didn't satisfy them. this tariff lowered the tariff.

  • south carolina's ordinance of nullification

    South Carolina was claiming they were going to succeed from the union if the government didn't get rid of these tariffs that were created in 1832 and 1828 and South Carolina said the tariffs were null and void.

  • proclamation to the people of South Carolina

    this was Presidents Andrew Jacksons response to the South Carolinians and it was proclamation that told them that they shouldn't succeed from the union or try to and that they should follow the law and stay in the union . because if they did try to leave would put the army their and force the laws with actual military force.

  • the compromise tariff of 1833

    Senator Henry Clay passed a tariff in 1833 and the tariff stated that duties/taxes that were excess would be lowered by 20 percent of the value of the goods imported and they were said to be reduced year after year so when the year of 1842 came he goods taxes would be the same as if it were 1816.