Known as " The Great Compromiser ", Clay brokered important agreements during the Nullification Crisis and on the Compromise Tariff of 1833, and the Compromise of 1850 to ease sectional tensions.
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The compromise tariff helped to preserve the supremacy of the federal government over the states, but the crisis was indicative of the developing conflict between the northern and southern United States over economics and slavery.
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After implementation of the Compromise Tariff of 1833, which helped solve the Nullification Crisis, the Nullifier Party, along with other anti-Jackson politicians, formed a coalition known as the Whig Party.
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However he also demonstrated both the willingness and the ability to work with his opponents, cooperating with Clay and Calhoun ( now a Senator ) to pass the compromise Tariff of 1833, which helped end the Nullification Crisis.
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Clay's 1833 compromise tariff specified that all duties more than 20 % of the value of the goods imported were to be reduced by easy stages, so that by 1842, the duties on all articles would reach the level of the moderate tariff of 1816.
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In his February 25 speech ending the debate on the tariff, Clay captured the spirit of the voices for compromise by condemning Jackson's Proclamation to South Carolina as inflammatory, admitting the same problem with the Force Bill but indicating its necessity, and praising the Compromise Tariff as the final measure to restore balance, promote the rule of law, and avoid the " sacked cities, " " desolated fields, " and " smoking ruins " that he said would be the product of the failure to reach a final accord.
