That caused a conflict between the state and federal government known as the Nullification Crisis, which ended only with the passage of the Compromise Tariff of 1833 — and foreshadowed the Civil ...

which ended only with the passage of the Compromise Tariff of 1833 — and foreshadowed the Civil War. Tariffs had made up some 90% of U.S. government revenue before the Civil War, but that figure ...