What were the consequences of the split of Calhoun and Jackson?

Answer 1

There was a flap over the wife of Jackson's Secretary of War, She had been a been a bar-maid and was not considered to be a lady by Mrs Calhoun, who refused to socialize with her. Calhoun also hated the federal tariffs and claimed the right of a state to nullify Federal Laws that it found unacceptable. Jackson did not agree that a state had such a right.

Answer 2

With the Vice President Calhoun - President Jackson split, Secretary of State Van Buren of New York was able to increase his influence in the administration, and Van Buren replaced Calhoun as Vice President for Jackson's second term. Internally for Calhoun's South Carolina base, the Vice President to National Republican President John Quincy Adams dropped his alliance with South Carolina Unionists and Calhoun partnered with the states-rights radicals. This led to the Nullification Crisis, where Calhoun supposed one state could call a constitutional convention to decide questions of Congressional law, by-passing the Supreme Court. The law at issue was Van Buren's Tariff of Abominations, meant to embarrass Henry Clay to re-elect Jackson, which it did. When John Q. Adams, elected as a Representative, put together a compromise tariff that passed both houses with a Clay-Calhoun compromise, Jackson pocket-vetoed it, leaving contemporaneous Force Bill standing, stabbing both Clay and Calhoun in the back. Calhoun's Nullification Convention repealed its nullification of the Tariff, resolved to nullify the Force Bill, and South Carolina accepted collection of tariffs in Charleston Harbor. The US did not invade South Carolina. The Unionists in South Carolina were utterly discredited. South Carolina required unconditional loyalty oaths to South Carolina. Calhoun's South Carolina required conditional allegiance to the United States, in violation of Article VI requiring an oath to uphold the US Constitution of every state legislative, executive and judicial officer. Rather than perjure themselves, Unionists dropped out of South Carolina Government. The secession from the US had begun.

Answer 3

The nullification crisis. Andrew Jackson strongly objected to john calhoun's theory of nullification.