President Jackson is forced to confront the…
1832 CE
President Jackson is forced to confront the state of South Carolina on the issue of the protective tariff toward the end of his first term in office.
The protective tariff passed by Congress and signed into law by Jackson in 1832 is milder than that of 1828, but it further embitters many in the state.
In response, several South Carolina citizens endorse the "states rights" principle of "nullification", which had been enunciated by John C. Calhoun, Jackson's Vice President until 1832, in his South Carolina Exposition and Protest (1828).
South Carolina deals with the tariff by adopting the Ordinance of Nullification, which declares both the Tariff of 1828 and the Tariff of 1832 null and void within state borders.Groups
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