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A three page paper in which the struggle for nullification in the United States during this period is examined to determine who won and why. Two sources are listed in the bibliography.
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Constitution was dry. There two economies could not have been more diametrically opposed with the North favoring industrialization and the South remaining true to its agricultural roots. The
Union had been created by colonists wary of a strong central government that rendered the colonies virtually powerless. As a result, states were determined that the U.S. federal government
would never be granted the authority similar to that of the British monarchy, and that sovereignty would be shared. However, this is more easily accomplished in theory than in
actual practice, and by the 1820s, Southern states were beginning to resent the federal governments efforts to equalize the international economic playing field by the imposition of tariffs, believing these
were measures favoring the North over the South. After the War of 1812, the national government began levying tariffs against European imports (most notably British goods) so that U.S.
manufacturers could remain competitive with them. The U.S. Congress continued this questionable policy by passing what became known as the "Tariff of Abominations" in 1828, which protected Northern business
interests while at the same time forced the South to pay higher prices for products that had to be purchased elsewhere. Furthermore, because of the tariff, the British would
be purchasing less of the Souths most important cash export - cotton. This ignited already simmering tensions between the North and the South and fueled the longtime debate between
federal government authority vs. states rights. The so-called nullification crisis lasted between 1828 and 1832 (also known as the "secession crisis"), and sowed the seeds of discord that would
grow into the Civil War. Both the Southern proponents of states rights and the Unionists led by new President Andrew Jackson with Daniel Webster as their eloquent spokesman, would
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