Cuevas' Nullification Post

The rise of The Nullification Crisis came to be when South Carolina and its people in leadership positions grew tired of the tariff which raised state taxes on imports. John C. Calhoun was among these leaders who was at the time serving as Vice President to Andrew Jackson, he would eventually resign his role and return to South Carolina and be voted into Senate. He and his followers in South Carolina were no longer going to allow for the federal government to dictate the rights of individual states, and suggested that they “nullify” the law. Calhoun felt that state rights took precedence over anything the federal government mandated. Although Calhoun gained some momentum with his movement to gain individual state rights for South Carolina, it never caught on with other states, thus making South Carolina stand out as the bad guys in the eyes of the federal government. Eventually Calhoun and the federal government eventually came to a compromise and a new tariff was reached. The Nullification Crisis brought to light that resistance from the ways of the federal laws could cause a magnitude of problems.