Tariff Act of 1832

After South Carolina threatened to nullify the Tariff of 1828, the federal government passed the Tariff of 1832.  The updated law reduced some of the tariff rates that South Carolina had been concerned about, but the reductions were not enough for South Carolina, or Vice President Calhoun.  Calhoun resigned on December 28, 1832, and South Carolina convened a convention that decided by a vote of 136 to 26 to adopt an ordinance of nullification, declaring both the tariffs of both 1828 and 1832 unconstitutional and unenforceable in South Carolina.  A compromise was later reached with the Tariff of 1833.  It was during this time the Jeffersonian Republican Party was changed to the Democratic Party, and the Constitutionalists would later bail out and form a new party known as the Whig Party.