Southerners resisted the increased tariff in 1828, arguing it should be nullified primarily because 2. It benefited one section of the country at the expense of another.
Southern states believed that the tariff primarily benefited Northern industrial interests by protecting them from foreign competition, while it imposed higher prices on goods that the South relied on, such as manufactured products. This tariff policy was viewed as unfair and detrimental to the Southern economy, which was largely agrarian. The resentment over this situation was a key component of the Nullification Crisis.