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The Maine, Missouri, Clay's, or Henry's compromise
Henry Clay helped to pass the Compromise Tariff of 1833 as a resolution to the Nullification Crisis. The compromise gradually reduced taxed on imports for the southerners. This compromise kept South Carolina from seceding from the Union.
Henry Clay, along with John C. Calhoun, proposed the Compromise Tariff of 1833 in resolve the Nullification Crisis. This was intended to prevent South Carolina's initial threat of succession.
The North and South wouldn't be able to trade and it would greatly hurt their economy.
The Nullification crisis ended by having the Congress pass a compromise bill that made tariffs, or tax made from the government on imported goods, lower. Also that Jackson threatened to kill, by hanging them, the first person he could get on the first tree, if they were to secede, or withdraw of the states.