Initially designed as an excise on imported goods as a protective measure for domestic manufacturing, many historians hold that the provisions which also taxed imported raw materials were intentionally added by Pro-Jacksonian congressmen in an effort to produce a package so odious both to the North and the South that it would be defeated and cause embarrassment to John Quincy Adams.
Initially designed as an excise on imported goods as a protective measure for domestic manufacturing, many historians hold that the provisions which also taxed imported raw materials were intentionally added by Pro-Jacksonian congressmen in an effort to produce a package so odious both to the North and the South that it would be defeated and cause embarrassment to John Quincy Adams. Instead it was passed, and proved so despised in the South that in reaction to it the South Carolina Exposition and Protest was drawn up. For 10 points name this 1828 tariff which Calhoun urged South Carolina to "nullify".
Initially designed as an excise on imported goods as a protective measure for domestic manufacturing, many historians hold that the provisions which also taxed imported raw materials were intentionally added by Pro-Jacksonian congressmen in an effort to produce a package so odious both to the North and the South that it would be defeated and cause embarrassment to John Quincy Adams.
Tariff of Abominations (accept Tariff of 1828 early on)