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Who believed high tariffs raised the prices of manufactured goods?
John C Calhoun believed high tariffs raised the prices of manufactured goods
How did Congress protect the New England textile industry?
Congress imposed tariffs (taxes on imports or exports) to protect the New England textile industry.
Why did the US put tariffs on forgein goods?
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.
How did the tariffs effect the west?
It affected farmers in the west by taxing the european goods to be as high as the american goods so farmers can't get the european goods and will by the american goods
What did anti-protectionists argue was a harmful effect of tariffs?
Higher prices of foreign goods
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