Tariff legislation has always been a fraught issue, requiring considerable effort by the legislative branch to debate and ...

In that region, it was termed the “Tariff of Abominations” and directly led to the Nullification Crisis of 1832, which planted the seed for secession and civil war a generation later.

Tariff legislation has always been a fraught issue, requiring considerable effort by the legislative branch to debate and iron out competing interests. Those battles have been memorialized in American ...