the presidency of andrew jackson, it was labeled the teriff of abominations by its southern detractors because of the effects it had on the southern economy
president andrew jackson issued a proclamation to the people of south carolina that disputed a states' right to nullify a federal law
first federal law to officially deny the individual states the right to disregard or override federal laws or to secede from the Union
known as the Compromise Tariff of 1833, ch. 55, 4 Stat. 629), enacted on March 2, 1833, was proposed by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun as a resolution to the Nullification Crisis
It was asserted that attempts to use force to collect the taxes would lead to the state's secession
