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What Southerners opposed this act of congress because it led to very high rates for imported manufactured goods?
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Why are puma shoes imported from another country?
This is because the puma shoes are manufactured in another country so they have to be imported so that you can have them
What was the souths point of view on the tariff on imported goods in 1850?
Southerners were hapy, because they could continue to buy goods from Great Britain cheaply
What was the south's point of view on tariffs on imported goods in 1850?
Southerners were hapy, because they could continue to buy goods from Great Britain cheaply
Why were merchants in the east in favor of a tariff of a tariff on imported manufactured goods?
It increased the demand for American goods because the tariff made the imported goods more expensive.
Why did northerns and southerners in congress pass the Compromise of 1850?
Because both sides were still hoping to avert a civil war.
Why do you think southerners in congress insisted on the passage of a fugitive slave law?
They wanted to be able to catch their slaves because they were property.
Why did high protective tariffs hurt southerners more than northerners?
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.
Why were southerners opposed to tariffs on imported goods?
the tariff helped only the north while reducing European interest in the exports that the south and west relied on.
Why did southerners hate lincoln?
Because was campaigning on a ticket of no new slave-states. When he won the 1860 election, it meant that the South would always be outvoted in Congress.
Why was Lincoln's 1860 election seen as a threat by the southerners?
Because Lincoln represented the Republicans, a party that would not allow new slave-states. This meant that the South would be increasingly out-voted in Congress, which would be tempted to levy more tariffs on the imported goods the South needed, having almost no manufacturing industry of their own.
The Tariff Act of 1828 caused strong feelings of sectionalism in the southern states because?
The South relied on imported goods as it was an agriculturally based economy. The North, with its industrial basis, favored high duties on imported goods so that it could sell its manufactured goods to the South.
Why did southern states object to and resist the tariffs of 1828 and 1832?
The southerners bought more foreign goods than the northerners did. So this kind of led to sectionalism because the northerners thought differently and the southerners were angry because it this tariff affected a lot of people.
