John C Calhoun believed high tariffs raised the prices of manufactured goods
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The OPEC nations dramatically raised oil prices.
OPEC raised oil prices, ending an era of cheap fuel. Recession and increased inflation followed in the west.
The American colonists hated the Stamp Act, Townshend Act, and the Tea Act because they did not want raised taxes. They believed it to be unfair and unnecessary.
Passed by Congress in July 1897, the Dingley Tariff Act increased duties by an average of 57 percent. Tariff rates were hiked on sugar, salt, tin cans, glassware, and tobacco, as well as on iron and steel, steel rails, petroleum, lead, copper, locomotives, whisky, and leather.