Nullification Crisis

  • tariff of 1828

    a protective tariff passed to protect industry in the north. In order to get Americans to buy their goods, European manufacturers would sell their goods at very low prices. It was very hard for American manufacturers to keep up.
  • South Carolina Exposition

    was an essay explaining the South’s discontent with the Tariff of 1828. Calhoun thought that the tariff was unconstitutional and argued that the states rally together and nullify the tariff.
  • South Carolina Nullification

    had strong oppositions to the tariffs and refused to pay them. They threatened to secede from the union if Jackson used force to collect them.
  • Tariff of 1832

    was a protectionist tariff in the US and reduced tariffs to help resolve the conflicts created by the tariff of 1828.
  • Jackson's Proclamation

    Jackson prepared troops to go to bring SC to collect tariff revenue but didn't actually go. He urged congress instead to pass the Force Bill that would give him the power to use military force to enforce tariffs.
  • HAynes counter proclamation

    claimed that a state if oppressed by a law can deem it unconstitutional and void.
  • clay compromise (The Compromise Tariff of 1833)

    A response to the Force Bill. it was composed of a new tariff.
  • SC repeal of the Nullification

    SC repealed some of their nullification. They approved of the lowering of tariff rates.