The first tariff mentioned was that of 1832, which virtually annulled all the abominations of the tariff ... the last tariff act passed before the civil war. The faults of specific duties Mr ...

Herbert Hoover signed the retaliatory Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, and it only made the Great Depression worse. | Opinion ...

In that region, it was termed the “Tariff of Abominations” and directly led to the Nullification Crisis of 1832, which planted the seed for secession and civil war a generation later.