USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Nevertheless, President John Quincy Adams approved the bill on May 19, 1828, helping to seal his loss to Andrew Jackson in the 1828 presidential election.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -The bill was vehemently denounced in the South and escalated to a threat of civil war in the Nullification Crisis of 1832–1833. The tariff was replaced in 1833, and the crisis ended. It was called the “Tariff of Abominations” by its Southern detractors because of the effects it had on the Southern economy.