What Is The Events Leading To The Nullification Crisis

Jackson threatened to resort to military action to resolve the issue of South Carolina declaring the recently passed tariffs unconstitutional, therefore null and void within its state boundaries, which only drove a wedge between the South and the North. There was a series of proclamations, bills, and tariffs during what was called the Nullification Crisis.
Directly leading to the nullification theory was the Tariff of Abominations. “In 1828, Congress passed a revised tariff that came to be known as the Tariff of Abominations” (Roark et al. 288). “The tariff sought to protect northern and western agricultural products from competition with foreign imports; however, the resulting tax on foreign goods would raise the cost of living in the South
This led to the Webster-Haynes debate and the South Carolina Convention. In the Webster-Haynes debate, they argued back and forth about things such as indirect taxation and the spokesman for South Carolina in this debate was Robert Y. Haynes. “Sir, I may be singular — perhaps I stand alone here in the opinion, but it is one I have long entertained, that one of the greatest safeguards of liberty is a jealous watchfulness on the part of the people, over the collection and expenditure of the public money — a watchfulness that can only be secured where the money is drawn by taxation directly from the pockets of the people. Every scheme or contrivance by which rulers are able to procure the command of money by means unknown to, unseen or unfelt by, the people, destroys this security. Even the revenue system of this country, by which the whole of our pecuniary resources are derived from indirect taxation, from duties upon imports, has done much to weaken the responsibility of our federal rulers to the people, and has made them, in some measure, careless
After John C. Calhoun resigned as vice president, South Carolina leaders declared the federal tariffs null and void. They saw them as unconstitutional and unreasonable. Jackson then sent troops to Charleston harbor. He threatened to invade South Carolina. A Force Bill was passed and a compromise tariff was passed at the same time to reduce tariffs. The Force Bill accused South Carolina of treason. It also gave the military the authority to collect federal tariffs which South Carolina Owed. South took away the nullification of the old tariff. However, South Carolina didn’t fold and nullified the Force