While Calhoun had previously voted for tariffs to protect new industries , he was opposed to the Tariff of 1828. When the bill appeared in Senate, Calhoun had decided he would be the deciding vote against it. However, the tariff passed. In protest, Calhoun encouraged nullification of the tariff in his home state of South Carolina which prompted President Jackson to send warships to the harbor to enforce it. .
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Calhoun became a strong opponent of Nationalist programs such as high tariffs. Calhoun and other southerners, argued that tariffs raised the prices that they had to pay for the manufactured goods that they could not produce themselves.
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John C. Calhoun argued that the tariffs violated equal rights. According to his perspective, tariffs not only favored the northern states, but also harmed the southern states. Imported goods hurt the income of all people in South Carolina. As far as Calhoun was concerned, helping support the northern industrial base was not the purpose of the federal government.
The South didn't want high tariffs because their economy relied on foreign trade.
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John C. Calhoun supported South Carolina's uproar to the tariffs set by Andrew Jackson and the rights of South Carolina's legislation.He nullified- " to void" any laws set against the state. John resigned from office which made deductions in the tariff taxes.
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