The Nullification Crisis ended when a compromise was reached lowering the tariff which avoided the threat of federal force on South Carolina. What was South Carolina's

problem?

The subject of the Nullification Crisis was the debate about whether a state has the right to nullify federal laws within its borders.

The crisis was caused by the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832, which imposed high protectionist duties on manufactured goods, which was advantageous, first of all, for the growing industry of the North and ran into resistance from the South, whose economy was largely based on agriculture. Resistance to the imposition of duties and the political tradition that saw the Union as a community of individual sovereign individual states led to the fact that the doctrine of nullification found great support in South Carolina. According to her authorities, federal laws that contradict state laws could be nullified and declared invalid.

Following the approval of the 1832 Tariff Act, South Carolina, under the leadership of John C. Calhoun, Robert Young Hain, James Hamilton Jr. and other politicians, began to put this doctrine into effect. State authorities decided to declare the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null and void in the spring of 1833 and threatened to secede from the United States if the central government decided to force the laws to remain in force. Under the leadership of Henry Clay, a compromise was eventually found. It provided for a further reduction in tariffs, as well as the abolition of nullification by South Carolina.