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Nullification crisis: American vice president John C. Calhoun's South Carolina Exposition and Protest, written to protest the Tariff of Abominations, was presented to the South Carolina House of Representatives.
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Nullification crisis
Event during the presidency of Andrew Jackson
The nullification crisis was a sectional political crisis in the United States in 1832 and 1833, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which involved a confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government. It ensued after South Carolina declared the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
John C. Calhoun
Vice President of the United States from 1825 to 1832
John Caldwell Calhoun was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. Born in South Carolina, Calhoun began his political career as a nationalist, modernizer and proponent of a strong federal…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
South Carolina Exposition and Protest
1828 document written by John C. Calhoun
The South Carolina Exposition and Protest, also known as Calhoun's Exposition, was written in December 1828 by John C. Calhoun, then Vice President of the United States under John Quincy Adams and later under Andrew Jackson. Calhoun did not formally state his authorship at the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Tariff of Abominations
1828 United States tariff
The Tariff of 1828 was a very high protective tariff that became law in the United States on May 19, 1828. It was a bill designed to fail in Congress because it was seen by free trade supporters as hurting both industry and farming, but it passed anyway. The bill was vehemently…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
South Carolina House of Representatives
Lower house of the South Carolina General Assembly
The South Carolina House of Representatives is the lower house of the South Carolina General Assembly. It consists of 124 representatives elected to two-year terms at the same time as U.S. congressional elections.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)