Question

How did South Carolina’s legislature respond to the passage of the Tariff of 1828, also known as the “Tariff of Abominations”?

A. It threatened to secede from the Union and declare war on the North.
B. It started a boycott of all goods produced in northern states.
C. It enacted the idea of nullification and declared the law null and void.
D. It refused to sell cotton to European nations until the tariff was lowered.

Answer 1

C. It enacted the idea of nullification and declared the law null and void

Step-by-step explanation:

The tariff of abominations, effectively increase the import tax for foreign products. This legislation affected a lot of states in the south which at that time imported large portion of their raw materials from Great Britain and France.

In response to this, Several southern states outright refused to follow the federal legislations regarding this tariff.

They argued that the Tariff of Abominations was unconstitutional and they refused to implemented within their region. This refusal is what commonly considered as 'Declaring the law null and void'