One way in which the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions and the South Carolina ordinance of nullification are similar is that each <u>claimed that laws passed by the Congress and signed by the President at that time were unconstitutional. </u>
In the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798 and 1799 respectively) the states legislatures argued that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. The act consisted of four laws that made it harder for an immigrant to become a citizen, allowed the president to imprison and deport non-citizens who were deemed dangerous or who were from a hostile nation and criminalized making false statements that were critical of the federal government.
The Ordinance of Nullification was passed by the South Carolina legislature declaring that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional, and thereby null and void. The state held that the tariff imposed were detrimental to its well being and favored the North over the South.
The dispute surrounding assigning the border at the Río Grande or at Nueces River, coupled with the U.S. annexation of Texas in 1845, set the Mexican-American War into motion. This slice of land between the Río Grande and the Nueces River is called the Trans-Nueces, which you can see in the middle of the two yellow lines in the center of the map on the left. Lasting from 1846-1848, the Mexican-American War ended in the Mexico-U.S. border being set at the Rio Grande and the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. As part of the Treaty, Mexico lost a devastating 55% of its land to the U.S., giving both countries the border we recognize today. Well, for the most part.
Desire of the railroad companies to build rail lines on a deal of new land that open up to whether it was for the "free" or "slaves" .
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