USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Calhoun of South Carolina served as Representative, Senator, and Vice President. Calhoun resigned his position as Vice President to return to the Senate in 1832. 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: -The tariff of 1828 raised taxes on imported manufactures so as to reduce foreign competition with American manufacturing. Southerners, arguing that the tariff enhanced the interests of the Northern manufacturing industry at their expense, referred to it as the Tariff of Abominations.

Detailed explanation-3: -Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was an American politician who was the 39th vice president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1973. He is the second vice president to resign the position, the other being John C. Calhoun in 1832.

Detailed explanation-4: -Doctrine of nullification and the “Tariff of Abominations” The doctrine of nullification had been advocated by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798–99.