The Nullification Crisis showed that the economic and political interests of the two sections of the country were moving farther away from each other.
The Nullification Crisis: 1832-1833
John C. Calhoun, Vice President 1825-1832
A sectional crisis created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification
- The ordinance declared by the power of the State that the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and therefore null and void within South Carolina's boundaries
- John C. Calhoun, a politician & political theorist from South Carolina
- known for his intense defense of the nullification of South Carolina and slavery, as well as leading the South toward secession from the Union
- believed that Congress had no right to impose a tariff that favored one section [the North] over another [the South]
Contribution to Sectionalism..
Andrew Jackson, President 1829–1837
Dramatized the differences between the North & the South
-North trying to protect its manufacturing industry by imposing import tariffs
-South feeling tariffs favored Northern-manufacturing interests at the expense of the Southern farmers
-Even the President, Andrew Jackson, and Vice President, John C. Calhoun were on opposite sides of the spectrum, (highlighting the level of divisiveness within the nation)