EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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Question
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He would have liked tariffs because they encouraged the North to buy goods from southern industries
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He would have favored tariffs because they increased the price of southern goods
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He would have been indifferent because tariffs mainly affected only northern businesses
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He would have opposed tariffs because they increased the price of goods imported from Europe making the South economically dependent on the North
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Detailed explanation-1: -Southern farmers and politicians felt the tariff needed to be higher to encourage people to buy domestic products. The South felt the tariff was unfair and unnecessarily drove prices up making cash crops more expensive.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-4: -Free trade Southerners ended up supporting much higher tariffs rates, ranging from 30-60 percent on over 90 percent of all imports, in the belief that the defeat of the bill would hurt incumbent president John Quincy Adams.