Question

How did the tariff of 1828 affect people in the South?

Answer 1

Hint: In 1828, Andrew Jackson was elected president (Opens in a new window), partially because of the South's expectation that he would follow policies more in line with the interests of Southern planters and slaveholders.

Complete answer: To its Southern critics, the tariff became known as the Tariff of Abominations. Tariffs intensified sectional tensions because they increased imported product rates, which favoured the Northern domestic manufacturing industry but was poor for Southern slaveholders who had to pay higher commodity prices. Southerners also worried that higher tariffs on raw materials manufactured in the South would be enacted by foreign countries. Besides, because the British decreased their exports to the United States and They had less money to pay for US imports, especially cotton from the South, in response to the tariffs. As a result, less cotton was supplied by the British, further depressing the Southern economy.
Indeed as his vice president, Jackson had picked John C. Calhoun, a native of South Carolina.
Many Southerners wanted Jackson to eliminate or at least decrease the so-called
Tariff of Abominations and better defend their interests than John Quincy Adams did. In July, Andrew Jackson signed into law the Tariff of 1832, which received the support of most southerners and northerners in Congress but could not satiate South Carolina. Hence in 1832, a state convention adopted the Ordinance of nullification, which declared tariffs of 1828, were unconstitutional and unenforceable.
This led to the Nullification Proclamation, on 10th December which threatened to send government troops to enforce the tariffs, but in March a new negotiated tariff, the compromise Tariff of 1833, which was satisfactory to South Carolina.

Note: The crisis was over and both northern and southern sides found reasons to celebrate, as the tariffs were reduced but the state rights doctrine of nullification remained controversial.