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His name was Andrew ... tariffs, designed to protect Northern manufacturing, redounded to the detriment of Southern agriculture. Southern firebreathers denounced the Tariff Act of 1828 as the ...
The 1828 election was seen as a rematch between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson ... the Compromise of 1833 brought an end to tariff agitation until the 1840s. Jackson issued the Specie Circular ...