During the nullification crisis,
A) Jackson acknowledged the constitutional validity of the theory of nullification.
B) Calhoun and Clay drafted a compromise tariff to resolve the crisis.
C) the Supreme Court ruled that a state lacks the power to nullify a federal law.
D) a majority of southern states supported South Carolina's ordinance of nullification.

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The nullification crisis was resolved when Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun worked together to draft the Compromise Tariff of 1833, which gradually reduced the tariffs that South Carolina had protested, thereby easing tensions and ending the crisis.

During the Nullification Crisis