Nullifacation and States Rights

Nullification

        As countries started to develop many countries such as Great Britain  Spain, France, and Africa who had major corporations started selling products over seas to the United States. At first is seemed like a good idea to form country relations and also get more money there was a problem, many of the products sold from other countries were cheap, way cheaper than similar products made by northern factories. Southern countries were buying non-American products every day and this started to damage many northern businesses and factories, so to prevent this the government created a tariff also know by the south as the tariff of abominations, which stated that all foreign products are either taxed of entirely prevented from being sold in the country. This tariff allowed for the north to regain their foot hold in being the major producer of American products and helped make the northern countries richer. Although this look good to the north it was (and hints the southern name) and abomination to the south, it prevented and made getting new slave harder and made stuff more costly for the southern states so in response to this tariff many states either argued or ignored this tariff except for South Carolina, they nullified it entirely (definition in link).

States Rights

After South Carolina nullified the tariff of abominations they were in trouble with the government, the government stated that South Carolina had no right to nullify that tariff which brought up the argument of stated rights. All of the states disagreed with the north telling South Carolina that they could not nullify the tariff, they believed that any state that wanted to could chose whether or not they had to obey a right should be the states decision. During this time period many states (mainly the sothern) felt as though their way of life was under attack, slavery was being taken away slowly, and they were being forced to buy from northern companies they felt that the best thing to do was to practice and demonstrate the importance of states rights.