enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Tariff of 1833 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_of_1833

    Most importantly, the Tariff of 1833 guaranteed that all tariff rates above 20% would be reduced by one tenth every two years with the final reductions back to 20% coming in 1842. This essentially forced import tariffs to gradually drop over the next decade, pleasing South Carolina and other Southern states that depended on cheap imports. [8]

  3. Force Bill - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_Bill

    Meanwhile, Congress passed the Force Bill, which was enacted on March 2, 1833. It authorized the president to use whatever force he deemed necessary to enforce federal tariffs. As a matter of principle, the South Carolina legislature voted to nullify the Force Bill, but simultaneously, a Compromise Tariff was passed by Congress, defusing the ...

  4. United States Senate Committee on the Tariff Regulation

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate...

    The Tariff of 1833 guaranteed that all tariff rates above 20% would be reduced by one tenth every two years with the final reductions back to 20% coming in 1842. This essentially forced import tariffs to gradually drop over the next decade, pleasing South Carolina and other Southern states that depended on cheap imports.

  5. Antebellum South Carolina - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antebellum_South_Carolina

    An image of The Compromise Tariff of 1833 that would lower rates on tariffs over 10 years in an agreement between John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay.. In 1811, British ships plundered American ships, inspiring outraged "War Hawk" representatives into declaring the War of 1812.

  6. Nullification crisis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullification_crisis

    South Carolina remained unsatisfied, and on November 24, 1832, a state convention adopted the Ordinance of Nullification, which declared that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable in South Carolina after February 1, 1833. [5] South Carolina initiated military preparations to resist anticipated federal enforcement ...

  7. Proclamation to the People of South Carolina - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_to_the_People...

    Following this, Henry Clay proposed the Compromise Tariff of 1833, which was later signed into law alongside the Force Bill by Jackson on March 2, 1833. [9] The Compromise Tariff of 1833 called for a series of reductions at two-year intervals, culminating in the same rates as the Tariff of 1816, and was supported primarily by the South and West.

  8. List of state applications for an Article V Convention

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_applications...

    Limitation on Tariffs January 12, 1833: J HR V22.2 361-362 ... 2021: Cong. Rec. Vol. 167, p. ... in the Congressional Record and the text of an application by South ...

  9. History of tariffs in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tariffs_in_the...

    The Tariff of 1842 returned the tariff to the level of 1832, with duties averaging between 23% and 35%. The Walker Tariff of 1846 essentially focused on revenue and reversed the trend of substituting specific for ad valorem duties. The Tariff of 1857 reduced the tariff to a general level of 20%, the lowest rate since 1830, and expanded the free ...