JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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35% Tax on 92% on exported goods
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35% Tax on 92% of all imported goods
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92% Tax on 35% of all imported goods
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92% Tax on 35% of all exported goods
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Detailed explanation-1: -It set a 38% tax on some imported goods and a 45% tax on certain imported raw materials. The manufacturing-based economy in the Northeastern states was suffering from low-priced imported manufactured items from Britain. The major goal of the tariff was to protect the factories by taxing imports from Europe.
Detailed explanation-2: -The tariff of 1828 raised taxes on imported manufactures so as to reduce foreign competition with American manufacturing. Southerners, arguing that the tariff enhanced the interests of the Northern manufacturing industry at their expense, referred to it as the Tariff of Abominations.
Detailed explanation-3: -How did the Tariff of 1828 affect the South? What did they call this tariff? The tariff forced Southerners to pay taxes on the manufactured good they received from England in exchange for their cotton. They called the tariff the Tariff of Abominations.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Tariff of 1828 was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States on May 19, 1828, designed to protect industry in the northern United States. It was labeled the Tariff of Abominations by its southern detractors because of the effects it had on the antebellum Southern economy.