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Tariffs In The 1800s

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The tariffs are customs duties applied to imports of products with two fundamental purposes, on the one hand being a source of income for the State and on the other, to protect certain sectors of the economy when importing products that can compete with domestic production. In 1828, Congress approved the "tariff of abominations," a crushing and hard tariff that explicitly sacrificed one part of the country to another. Northern manufacturers were getting almost all the benefits of protection, while southern farmers were forced to pay higher prices for comparatively lower US products and lost their cotton export markets because of foreign retaliation against the United States. In 1832, Congress raised tariffs even more. South Carolina declared
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