JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Tax of 1828
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Ordinance of Nullification
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Tariff of Abominations
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -On this date, the Tariff of 1828-better known as the Tariff of Abominations-passed the House of Representatives, 105 to 94.
Detailed explanation-2: -Many Americans bought British made goods because they were more durable and sold for less. The tariff was raised and 1824, and then raised to an unbearable rate in 1828, thus receiving its nickname of the Tariff of Abominations!
Detailed explanation-3: -Force Bill The Tariff of 1828, also called the Tariff of Abominations, raised rates substantially (to as much as 50 percent on manufactured goods) but for the first time also targeted items most frequently imported in the industrial states in New England.
Detailed explanation-4: -The intense southern opposition to the 1828 tariff was led by John C. Calhoun, a dominating political figure from South Carolina. Calhoun had grown up on the frontier of the late 1700s, yet he had been educated at Yale College in Connecticut and also received legal training in New England.
Detailed explanation-5: -In 1828, Congress passed a high protective tariff that infuriated the southern states because they felt it only benefited the industrialized north. For example, a high tariff on imports increased the cost of British textiles. This tariff benefited American producers of cloth-mostly in the north.