The Tariff Act of 1828: The “Tariff of Abominations” Let’s rewind even further to 1828. The US introduced the Tariff Act, nicknamed the “Tariff of Abominations” by people who hated it.

The Tariff of Abominations was signed into law by John Quincy Adams in 1828. It was a major issue in that year’s election that swept Jackson and his new party, the Democratic Republicans, into ...

Those battles have been memorialized in American history by the names of certain tariff laws like The Tariff of Abominations of 1828 during the John Quincy Adams administration, and the Mongrel ...