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the tariff helped only the north while reducing European interest in the exports that the south and west relied on.
No, Democrats Wanted High Tariffs, while Republicans wanted High Tariffs
They hated tariffs. All they were making was cotton. Tariffs increased the cost of imports.
Tariffs brought in money for the Union and the Confederacy.
Throughout US history and also on a world wide basis, tariffs are used most often to protect homeland industries from foreign competition. The US did this allot and in the antebellum days, tariffs were used to protect the US's manufacturing revolution safe by imposing tariffs on imported goods.