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Because the south had access to the waters and seas but north did not, and because of the tariff, the south could do hardly anything and because the southerners had built few factories and didn't benefit from the tariff. Southerners bought many British goods and the tariff drove up the price. The southerners complained that the tariff made northern manufacturers rich at the expense of the South.

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The north had most of the manufacturing in the United States prior to the Civil War; the south was mostly agrarian, growing mostly cotton. The southerners wanted to purchase manufactured goods in competitive markets, to keep the prices down. The north wanted to keep the price of manufactured items UP, so they favored a "protective tariff", which is a tax that would be imposed on anything manufactured elsewhere (which meant, "in England".)

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Q: Why did high protective tariffs hurt southerners more than northerners?
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