ABSTRACT
During Andrew Jackson's first term, a political crisis occurred that had powerful political reverberations. Bridling under the onerous 1828 Tariff of Abominations that Congress had passed in Adams's term, the state of South Carolina struck back at the national government by issuing the Nullification Proclamation, which proclaimed a state's right to reject federal laws. Jackson, who would brook no such defiance of national laws, threatened military action against South Carolina. In the end, the state backed down and rescinded its Nullification Proclamation.
