USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Southerners, arguing that the tariff enhanced the interests of the Northern manufacturing industry at their expense, referred to it as the Tariff of Abominations. The tariff was so unpopular in the South that it generated threats of secession.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1828, Congress passed a high protective tariff that infuriated the southern states because they felt it only benefited the industrialized north. For example, a high tariff on imports increased the cost of British textiles. This tariff benefited American producers of cloth-mostly in the north.

Detailed explanation-3: -Many people in Southern states, especially South Carolina, opposed the tariff. They opposed protective tariffs on the grounds that hurt their state financially. Instead, they supported the free-trade of goods and threatened to nullify the Tariff of 1828 in a major challenge to national authority.

Detailed explanation-4: -The tariff sought to protect northern and western agricultural products from competition with foreign imports; however, the resulting tax on foreign goods would raise the cost of living in the South and would cut into the profits of New England’s industrialists.

Detailed explanation-5: -The government imposes tariffs to protect the domestic producer; thus, reducing the number of imports. The other nations also impose tariffs to protect their producers as a response, reducing the export of the nation that levied tariffs. Thus, protective tariffs reduce both the imports and the exports of the nation.