TARIFF OF ABOMINATIONS MAY 1828 TARIFF OF ABOMINATIONS U.S GOV'T LEGISLATIVE TRADE BUSINESS/COMMERCE U.S GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION ECONOMY AND LABOR IN MAY 1828 CONGRESS PASSED A PROTECTIVE TARIFF THAT BECAME KNOWN AS THE TARIFF OF ABOMINATIONS THE TARIFF IMPOSED EXTREMELY HIGH DUTIES OR TAXES ON RAW MATERIALS SUCH AS COTTON AND WOOL IRON HEMP FLAX AND MOLASSES ANDREW JACKSON'S SUPPORTERS EXPECTED THE TARIFF TO FAIL TO PASS CONGRESS AND THUS TO HURT PRESIDENT JOHN QUINCY ADAMS'S CHANCE OF RE ELECTION HOWEVER NEW ENGLAND MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WERE SO COMMITTED TO THE PRINCIPLE OF PROTECTIONISM THAT THE BILL PASSED JACKSON DEFEATED ADAMS IN THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND THE 1828 TARIFF SPARKED ONE OF THE MOST SERIOUS PROBLEMS OF HIS PRESIDENCY VICE PRESIDENT JOHN C CALHOUN OF SOUTH CAROLINA TURNED AGAINST THE TARIFF AND LED A MOVEMENT FOR ITS NULLIFICATION HE RAISED THE QUESTION OF A STATE'S RIGHT TO DECLARE A FEDERAL LAW NULL AND VOID EXTREMISTS IN THE NULLIFICATION CRISIS THREATENED SECESSION AND CREATED THE MOST SIGNIFICANT SECTIONAL CONFLICT BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR WHEN THE CONFLICT ESCALATED IN 1833 CALHOUN AND HENRY CLAY DRAFTED A COMPROMISE TARIFF WHICH LOWERED SOME TARIFF RATES
