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Tariff legislation has always been a fraught issue, requiring considerable effort by the legislative branch to debate and iron out competing interests. Those battles have been memorialized in American ...

Tariff legislation has always been a fraught issue, requiring considerable effort by the legislative branch to debate and ...

The Old South hated the tariff—but could it have been a “cause” of the civil war, given how the North rammed protective tariffs through Congress in 1861 and so often in years prior?

In that region, it was termed the “Tariff of Abominations” and directly led to the Nullification Crisis of 1832, which planted the seed for secession and civil war a generation later.