The 1800s Were A Tumultuous Time For The US

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the North and the South, at
least for awhile.
Then in 1828 congress raised the tariff on imported goods. In the
south they didn't have very much industry so they had to import most of
their good, so the tariffs were unpopular their. One state that protested
this action by congress. Since the North had more industry, the South felt
that congress was protecting the North by raising these tariffs. South
Carolina was the strongest protester of these tariffs. South Carolina
supported John C. Calhoun who said that a state could nullify or veto a
national law within it's own boundaries. In 1832 South Carolina's state
legislature declared the tariff acts of 1828 and 1832 null or void. They
went even further by saying that if the government tried to make them pay
the tariff they would break away from the union.
Then President Andrew Jackson, who had said that the union must be
preserved, stated that he strongly opposed this nullification. Jackson
also let it be know that he ...

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part was that Land in dispute between
New Mexico and Texas would go to New Mexico and for giving up this land
Texas would receive 10 million dollars. The fifth part was that buying and
selling of slaves but not slavery wouldn't be allowed in the District of
Columbia. The sixth and final part was that congress would enforce a law
stating that runaway slaves must be returned to their owners. The bill was
passed section by section until it became law. This again delayed the
inevitable.
Slavery: Slavery was one of the issues that the northerners and
the southerners fought about. In the south the main way of life was
agriculture, the main cash crop was cotton. Cotton was a labor ...

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