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The South Protests

The Webster-Hayne Debate

Senator Daniel Webster attacked the nullification, challenged Hayne from SC.

Hayne defended the southern states in nullifying the the acts and in seceding.

Webster: nullification would mean the end of the union!

VP John C. Calhoun( Southerner) believed states had the right to nullify (cancel) the laws because it went against state rights.

Southern states wanted to secede (break away) from the United States

Calhoun believed that "federal government was a creation of the states, the states themselves are the final authority of the constitutionality of federal laws".

Short Answer Assignment:

Do you think the issue over tariffs, the differences in economies, and states’ rights versus the federal government have been resolved or do you think they will flare up again?

What was it?

Jackson Takes a Stand

Jackson: "Our federal union....must be preserved!"

Calhoun: "The Union-next to our liberty, most dear". (The fate of the Union must take second place to the state's liberty).

Tariff: a fee paid by merchants who imported goods.

1828 Congress passed a very high tariff on manufactured goods.

Northerners liked it: people would start buying American goods then!

Southerners hated it: It was an abomination! Southerners thought prices of goods would eventually go up

South Carolina Threatens to Secession

(1832)

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The Nullification Crisis

What did the Nullification Act show?

  • Even after the union lowered the tariff, the South was still angry.
  • South Carolina would pass the Nullification Act which declared that they would not pay the "illegal" tariffs of 1828 and 1832.
  • SC Threatened to secede from the Union if the Federal Government wouldn't do anything.
  • Jackson supported a compromise bill created by Clay.
  • To make sure the South followed the compromise, in early 1833 the Force Bill was brought up saying that the president could use military to enforce the acts passed by Congress.
  • SC would accept the new tariff, but they voted to nullify the Force Act.

That the federal government would not allow a state to go its own way without a fight.

The Great Tariff Debate!

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