The tariff was a tax on imported manufactured goods. This raised the price of imported products and made it easier for US manufacturers to compete. Very few of these manufacturers were in the South, so all the tariff did for southerners was to raise their cost of living by making them pay higher prices for the things they needed. The tariff was in essence a tax on them to subsidize northern industry.
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Southerners
The nation's manufacturing industry was in jeopardy due to imported goods at very low prices. The Tariff of 1828 was one of many tariffs passed by Congress to impose tax on imported goods.
Enunciation of the doctrine of nullification
John C. Calhoun
The leader of South Carolina's reaction to nullify the tariff of 1826 by Andrew Jackson was politician John C. Calhoun from South Carolina