Download Protective Tariffs Timeline of Events: 1812

Protective Tariffs Timeline of Events: 1812 – 1833
1812 Embargo placed on British goods during the War of 1812
- Americans built factories/started businesses to provide goods
1815 War ends
- trade between US and Britain resumed
- lower priced British goods again sold in American markets
- American businesses complained to Congress
1816 Congress adopted a tariff protecting US industries from foreign
competition
- Northern businesses were pleased, Southern farmers were not
1824 Congress raised the protective tariff to protect US industries from
foreign competition
- Northern businesses were pleased, Southern farmers were not
1828 Congress raised the protective tariff again to protect US industries
from foreign competition
- Northern businesses were pleased, Southern farmers were irate…
- tariff was called the “Tariff of Abominations”
1832 Protective Tariff modified (lower rates) to appease southern states
- South Carolina declared tariff “null, void, and no law”
- known as the “Nullification Crisis”
- some Southerners discussed secession from the USA
- Vice President John C. Calhoun resigned in protest
- President Jackson threatened to send US Army to SC
1833 Henry Clay convinced Congress to modify protective tariff
- tariff rates would return to 1816 levels over nine years
- South Carolina accepted the Compromise Tariff
- tension subsided
Watch the Tariff of Abominations video and answer these questions:
1. What is a “protective tariff” and how does it work?
2. Why did the North like the tariff and why did the South dislike the
tariff?
3. Describe how government actions, such as taxes, can influence the
economic decisions of the citizens.
4. How does the Nullification Crisis relate to States’ Rights Theory?