Nullification Crisis

The nullification crisis came about all because South Carolina felt that the federal government had to much control over the states and did not allow them to pursue what was in their best interest. Those living in the southern states felt that the northern states were being pampered with a growing manufacturing industry, while they themselves were reaping the repercussions and falling into hard times. With the manufacturing business less than desirable, a decrease of the cotton export, and the tariff rates increasing as they were; some southerners began moving to other states in search of a better living. South Carolinians pursued a "nullification" which would allow each state to decide if a federal law was constitutional or unconstitutional. Should a state find that a particular law was unconstitutional; that state had the right to nullify the law and make it not valid in their state as South Carolina did to the tariffs of 1828 and 1832. Though South Carolina felt that nullification was within their legal limits, they eventually came to an agreement with the federal government to reduce the federal tariffs. 

This picture just how the people of South Carolina felt about the president

and the control he and the federal government had. 

Posted by: Kimberly Burris