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In November 1832, South Carolina passed a resolution stating that certain tariffs imposed by the Federal government didn't apply to their state. This was a crisis because states getting to pick and choose what laws they wanted to follow threatened the whole fabric of government. Eventually, the crisis was averted when the unfair tariff law was changed, but also when armed forces were authorized for use in South Carolina. It was a good compromise, but unfortunately didn't solve the larger North-South conflicts that led to the Civil War.

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States could declare null and void Federal Laws they deemed to be unconstitutional. Historical Example: In the "Nullification Crisis", or "secession crisis," of 1828 – 1832, John C. Calhoun, Jackson’s vice president, anonymously wrote the South Carolina Exposition and Protest to protest the Tariff of 1828, which South Carolina claimed was unconstitutional. In this essay, Calhoun stated that if the tariff was not repealed, South Carolina would secede. It stated also Calhoun's Doctrine of nullification, i.e., the idea that a state has the right to reject federal law, first introduced by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in their Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions.

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Congress wanted to raise the tariff on imports from Europe so that it would help the North compete. South Carolina then passed the Nullification Act saying they would not pay the tariffs and deemed them to be illegal.

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the nullification act declared the tariff of 1832 illegal.

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A South Carolina state law that canceled a federal tariff law

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What was an act passed by a South Carolina convention that declared that the tariff law of the US would be null and void in South Carolina?

The ordinance of nullification


Which state passed the Ordinance of Nullification?

South Carolina


What is the nullification critis?

The Nullification crisis can be defined as a sectional crisis that occurred during the presidency of Andrew Jackson which created the 1832 South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification. This ordinance stated that the federal tariffs of 1828 and 1832 where unconstitutional and therefore null and void.


Who thought the nullification ordinance was an act of treason and in 1833 asked congress?

John C Calhoun


South Carolina accepted the compromise tariff of 1833 on march 15 by revoking its?

(Ordinance Of Nullification)


What caused the Force Bill and the Tariff Act of 1833?

What caused this was South Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification in 1832


South Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification had precedents in?

The Kentucky Resolution, the Articles of Confederation, and the compact theory of government.


South Carolinas passage of the Ordinance of Nullification in 1832 was based on the idea that?

States had the authority to ignore federal laws.


Who thought the nullification ordinance was an act of treason and in 1833 asked congress to pass force bill?

Nat turner


South Carolina eventually repealed its Ordinance of Nullification in exchange for what?

Congress modified the tariffs in part, but they were also threatened with force.


South Carolina accepted the compromise tariff of 1833 by revoking its?

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.


What southern state said they would not obey federal tariff laws?

South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, November 24, 1832