JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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They would allow them access to cheap foreign imports
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They would prevent domestic manufacturing from growing
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They would redistribute wealth among American social classes
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They would made it more difficult to export crops
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Detailed explanation-1: -Overview. 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-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 South opposed high tariffs because they made trade with foreign countries more expensive.