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 | | The most famous instance of an attempt at nullification, and the one which resulted in the greatest output of opinions on the subject, occurred in South Carolina, therefore the majority of the case studies and examples in this paper shall be tied to this instance. |
 | | The South Carolina Nullification crisis began in 1828 when Congress passed what came to be known as the “tariff of abominations” which, in effect, made foreign goods more expensive than domestic products and forced the rural South to buy the more costly merchandise coming from the industrialized North. |
 | | It was not until the nullification crisis of 1832 that the question was finally answered, at least for practical purposes, as to what the fate of nullification and the states would be. |
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