fugitive slave law
3/5 cause
not to out law slavery until 1808
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The compromise that the Framers reached on the issues of the tariffs and slavery were, to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, also to regulate the Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several Sates, and with the Indian Tribes. So the Constitution gave Congress the power to place tariffs on imports, and the Congress was also given the power to control both the interstate and foreign trade. So to agreement with the Southern delegates the Framers from the North agreed to the Southern demands on slavery issue.
Daniel Webster was the Massachusetts senator who opposed nullification. He also opposed slavery & supported high tariffs.
the government passed tariffs to raise taxes
the north and the south both had differnt veiws or belives on tariffs. The North wanted tariffs and the south did not.
Tariffs worked mostly (and probably only) for the Northern states.