The
Ordinance of Nullification declared the
Tariff of 1828 and
1832 null and void within the state borders of
South Carolina. It began the
Nullification Crisis. Passed by a state convention on November 24, 1832, it led, on December 10, to President
Andrew Jackson's proclamation against South Carolina, the Nullification Proclamation of 1832, which sent a naval flotilla and a threat of sending government ground troops to enforce the tariffs. In the face of the military threat, and following a Congressional revision of the tariff, South Carolina repealed the ordinance.