Why were Southerners worried by the outcome of the Nullification Crisis?

The Nullification Crisis centered on whether a state could reject a federal law and whether the national government could enforce it. Southerners feared that if the federal government could use force to make South Carolina obey tariff laws, it might later use that power to interfere with slavery. So the correct choice is B, that the government could force them to give up slavery.

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