lished in 1828, which were acceptable to southerners as opposed to the higher rates since then. In 1832 his administration only sliced away a little bit of the duties, not close to what the south expected he would do. In retaliation of this insulting lack of concern of the South's voice in government, South Carolina acting on the doctrine of Nullification which stated that the union was made up of the states and that the states had the right to null or void a law if they didn't agree with it, declared the federal tariff laws of 1828 and 1832 invalid and prohibited collection of tariff's after February first of 1833. Jackson's response to this came on his Nullification Proclamation on December 10, 1832. He declared his intent to enforce the law and was willing to seek and agreement in a lowering of tariff's. In 1833 congress passed a compromise bill which set a new tariff, when the other southern states accepted the new tariff the threat of S. Carolina breaking away form the union was brought to a "happy" end. The Second Bank of the United States was not made into an issue of his election in 1828 by Jackson. However he decided the bank, which is not a government bank, but chartered by it in 1826, had failed to provide a stable currency, and had favored the Northern states, and few loans were granted to the southern and western areas because they were a larger risk and the bank didn't see it in it's interest to make such a gamble with it's money. And in his mind the bank was in violation on the Constitution. Even though the bank's charter wasn't due to expire until 1836, Jackson's political enemies pushed a bill through congress granting the banks re-charter, Jackson vetoed the bill. The "Bank" issue was a major item in his re-election in 1832. In his second term Jackson decided to remove federal deposits from the bank into "pet banks" which virtually took away the power Nicholas Biddle's power as president of the ...
