THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
JAMES MADISON AFTER THE WAR OF 1812 THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS
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The use of protective tariffs was unconstitutional
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Tariffs made it more expensive to use slave labor.
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Tariffs benefitted manufacturers but not farmers.
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The use of tariffs reduced the price of manufactured goods.
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Detailed explanation-1: -John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson’s vice president and a native of South Carolina, proposed the theory of nullification, which declared the tariff unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable.
Detailed explanation-2: -The protective tariff would not only raise revenue for the new national government, but also protect American industry from foreign competition. The arguments against protective tariffs were that the South had little industry to protect so it opposed this tariff.
Detailed explanation-3: -High tariffs were a means not only of protecting infant industries, but of generating revenue for the federal government. They were also a mainstay of the Republican Party, which dominated the Washington political scene after the Civil War.
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.