Northern Manufacturers

Tariff of Abominations Imposes 45% Import Taxes, Triggering Nullification Crisis and Sectional Conflict

1828-05-19 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Congress passes and President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828, an extraordinarily high protective tariff setting a 38% tax on some imported goods and a 45% tax on certain imported raw materials—the highest rates in American history to that point. The tariff seeks to protect Northern …

U.S. Congress John C. Calhoun Andrew Jackson Southern planters Northern manufacturers sectional-conflict nullification economic-extraction regional-exploitation slave-power

Tariff of 1816 Establishes Protectionism as Core of American System Economic Policy

1816-04-27 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 7/10

Congress passes the Tariff of 1816, the first explicitly protective tariff in American history, taxing imported goods at a remarkable 25% rate to protect emerging domestic industries from cheap British goods flooding American markets after the War of 1812. The tariff represents the first pillar of …

Henry Clay U.S. Congress Northern manufacturers Southern planters economic-policy sectional-conflict protectionism american-system regional-extraction