Answer:
The correct answer is C. In the Nullification Crisis, South Carolina claimed the right of nullification, Congress gave President Jackson the autorithy to fight it, and Clay authorized a way to settle the dispute.
Explanation:
The Nullification Crisis of 1832/1833 was a political conflict in the United States during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. The subject of the crisis was the question of whether a single state has the right to nullify federal laws within its state borders.
The cause of the crisis was the tariff laws of 1828 and 1832, which introduced high protective tariffs for industrial products in favor of the mainly growing industry in the north, which encountered resistance in the agricultural South. Resistance to tariffs and a political tradition that saw the Union as an alliance of sovereign states led to the popularity of South Carolina's doctrine of nullification. According to it, a state was allowed to nullify laws that it considered unconstitutional, thereby invalidating them. Following the passage of the Tariff Act of 1832, South Carolina, under the leadership of John C. Calhoun, Robert Young Hayne, James Hamilton, Jr. and other politicians, put this doctrine into practice. The state decided to suspend the Tariff Acts of 1828 and 1832 from the spring of 1833 and threatened secession from the United States if the central government wanted to enforce the laws by force. President Andrew Jackson, who was skeptical of even customs duties, responded by calling for further tariff reductions by Congress, but at the same time publicly attacking South Carolina and the doctrine of nullification and threatening to use military means. The slave-holding countries of the South did not support South Carolina in their nullification, but made it clear they wanted to prevent a war in any case. Under the leadership of Henry Clay, a compromise was finally found. He envisaged further lowering of tariffs and the withdrawal of South Carolina's nullification.
