The "nullification Crisis"
- South Carolinian's responded angrily to a congressional tariff bill that offered them no relief from the 1828 "tariff of abominations".
- legislative issued a convention which voted to nullify the tariffs of 1828 and 1832 and to forbid the collection of duties within the state
- Jackson insisted that nullification was treason and that those implementing it were traitors. he strengthened the federal forts in South Carolina and ordered a warship and several revenue ships to Charleston.
- Henry Clay set up a compromise and the force bill were passed
- The agreement was that the tariff would be lowered gradually so that, by 1842, it would reach approximately the same level as in 1816