The protective tarrif went up in the north, making goods more expencive in the south and the southerners did not like this. So the south desided that they could nullify it. Buth they were wrong. The reason was that they thought that the constitution did not aply to them. Like, they could abbid by the laws which they found suitable for their state. This, of course is not what the constitution is for. But John Adams did not want this for the union and there for did not allow South Carolina to abbid by them. It did create a frenzy, but was soon died off under the president's threat.
It was a protest against the Tariff of 1828 and introduced the idea that a state has the right to reject a federal law.
states had the right to declare Federal Laws unconstitutional and inapplicable within the state.
the Union was an alliance between sovereign states.
The South Carolina Exposition and Protest was written in December 1828. It was written as a response to the Tariff of Abominations of 1828.
The South Carolina Exposition and Protest was drawn up to oppose the Tariff of Abominations. The Tariff of Abominations was passed in 1828.
Tariff of Abominations
John C. Calhoun wrote Exposition and Protest of South Carolina.
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
President Andrew Jackson supported the preservation of the Union and in response to South Carolina's threat of secession, Jackson ordered armed forces to the South Carolina capital of Charleston to enforce the Tariff Act. The volatile situation was remedied only when Henry Clay negotiated a compromise tariff acceptable to both the federal government and South Carolina. Calhoun ultimately resigned the vice presidency in protest.
Parliament repealed the stamp act as a response to the colonist protest.
South Carolina accepted the Compromise Tariff of 1833 by revoking its Ordinance of Nullification of 1832. The Ordinance was passed in protest to the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.
John C. Calhoun wrote Exposition and Protest of South Carolina.
William Dowd
The Kentucky Resolution
The South Carolina Exposition was a protest by the state of South Carolina against the Tariff of 1828. The document stated that without repealing the tariff South Carolina would secede.
states' rights
John C. Calhoun
cause he was on his period
a state could declare an act of congress illeagal
states had the right to declare federal laws unconstitutional and inapplicable within the state. <apex!!!
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
The kind of protest that was used in 1960 in North Carolina was the civil rights.
South Carolina considered pulling out as a protest