History of the United States I / Unit 17 USH1 2412 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Nullification and the Force Bill
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The idea
South Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification in eighteen thirty-two declared that a federal tariff did not bind the state, and Jackson answered with the Force Bill.
In practice
A president threatening to use the army against a state over a customs duty.
Where people slip
Unit 10 covers who nullification actually served. Note that the doctrine's most famous use was about tariffs and its purpose was about slavery.
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