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Building a Coalition Building a Coalition
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The Sectional Crisis of 1835 The Sectional Crisis of 1835
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Slavery and Partisan Politics Slavery and Partisan Politics
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Clerical Anti-Abolitionism in the North and South Clerical Anti-Abolitionism in the North and South
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Petitioning and the Gag Rule Petitioning and the Gag Rule
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Petitioning in the South Petitioning in the South
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The Process of Disunion The Process of Disunion
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The Uses of Disunion in the North The Uses of Disunion in the North
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3 Ruinous Tendencies The Anti-Abolition Backlash
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Published:November 2008
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This chapter begins with abolitionist Lydia Maria Child's commentary on the nullification crisis: “Who does not see that the American people are walking over a subterranean fire, the flames of which are fed by slavery?” This protracted clash between South Carolina and the federal government lasted from 1828 until 1833. The ostensible cause of the crisis was Congress's passage, in 1828, of a “tariff of abominations” on European imports. In the first act of the crisis, President Andrew Jackson had condemned South Carolina's nullification scheme and hoped that a reduction in the tariff rate would ease tensions. However, South Carolinian states' rights men were singularly unimpressed by the tariff reform of 1832, and in November of that year held a Nullification Convention that enacted a veto of the hated measure and threatened secession if the U.S. government tried to enforce the nullified law.
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