Nullification Crisis

Examples of Nullification Crisis in the following topics:

• Protective Tariffs

  • Calhoun strongly opposed the tariff and urged nullification of the tariff within South Carolina.
  • The passing of the ordinance, which later became known as the Nullification Crisis, also sparked early discussions of secession from the Union among radical factions.
  • While the Nullification Crisis would be resolved in early 1833, tariff policy would continue to be a national political issue between the Democratic Party and the newly emerged Whig Party for the next 20 years.
  • The Nullification Crisis is also considered a precursor to the sectional crisis that would become the Civil War.
  • Discuss the history of tariffs from their inception in 1789 until the Nullification Crisis of 1832

• Nullification

  • The Tariff of 1828 highlighted economic conflicts of interest between the Northern and Southern states that eventually led to the Nullification Crisis of 1832.
  • The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis occurring during the presidency of Andrew Jackson that was created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification.
  • The crisis was over, and both sides could find reasons to claim victory.
  • Historians consider the crisis to be one of the first direct causes of the Civil War.
  • Summarize the circumstances that led to South Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification and the resolution of the crisis

• The Jackson Presidency

  • This is not to say that Jackson was a states' rights extremist; indeed, the Nullification Crisis (described below) would find Jackson fighting against what he perceived as state encroachments on the proper sphere of federal influence.
  • Another notable crisis during Jackson's period in office was the Nullification Crisis, or Secession Crisis, of 1828–1832, which merged issues of sectional strife with disagreements over tariffs.

• Manufacturing and Trade

  • The reaction in the South, particularly in South Carolina, led to the Nullification Crisis that began in late 1832.
  • In resistance to federal legislation increasing tariffs, South Carolina passed an "Ordinance of Nullification," a procedure in which a state would, in effect, repeal a Federal law.

• Jackson's Democratic Agenda

  • Jackson said that he would guard against "all encroachments upon the legitimate sphere of State sovereignty. " This is not to say that Jackson was a states' rights extremist; indeed, the Nullification Crisis would find Jackson fighting against what he perceived as state encroachments on the proper sphere of federal influence.

• Conclusion: The Development of Democracy

  • The crisis over the Tariff of 1828 continued into the 1830s and highlighted one of the currents of democracy in the Age of Jackson: Many southerners believed a democratic majority could be harmful to their interests.
  • He adroitly navigated through the Nullification Crisis and made headlines with what his supporters viewed as his righteous war against the bastion of money, power, and entrenched insider interests, the Second Bank of the United States.

• The Democratization of the Political Arena

  • Jackson said that he would guard against "all encroachments upon the legitimate sphere of State sovereignty. " This is not to say that Jackson was a states' rights extremist; indeed, the Nullification Crisis would find Jackson fighting against what he perceived as state encroachments on the proper sphere of federal influence.

• Jacksonian Democrats: 1824–1860

  • This is not to say that Jackson was a states' rights extremist; indeed, the Nullification Crisis would find Jackson fighting against what he perceived as state encroachments on the proper sphere of federal influence.

• Planter Power

  • The reaction in the South, particularly in South Carolina, would lead to the Nullification Crisis that began in late 1832.

• The 1956 Suez Crisis