The Nullification Crisis and the Almost-Civil-War (1832)

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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It’s December 6th. In 1832, South Carolina threatens to ignore a number of US tariff laws, and begins to threaten succession. Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss the “nullification crisis” and whether the country could have erupted into Civil War 30 years earlier than it eventually did.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:09.0	This day, December 1832, President Andrew Jackson issued a, quote, proclamation to the people
0:17.6	of South Carolina, asserting the supremacy of the federal government and warning that quote this union by armed force is treason.
0:26.4	That language is all to say basically hey South Carolina you're part of this union
0:30.5	whether you like it or not cut it out with all this nullification
0:33.8	talk and all this secession talk and we'll get into the specifics of what
0:37.5	exactly this nullification crisis meant that is our topic for today but one of the
0:42.1	reasons we are doing this episode
0:43.6	is because of something that Kelly said
0:45.1	on a recent episode, we were having a conversation.
0:47.5	I don't even remember which one it was,
0:49.2	but Kelly said something like,
0:50.9	many scholars think that the US Civil War could have just as easily
0:53.8	happened in the 1830s rather than a generation later in the 60s and that is the
0:59.1	question I'm about to ask Kelly right after I introduce her and Nicky.
1:03.2	Here, as always, our Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt
1:05.2	and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wausley.
1:07.0	Hello there.
1:08.0	Hi, Jody.
1:09.2	Hey there.
1:10.5	Kelly, can you guess what question I'm about to ask you?
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