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Tariffs divided the country since the founding of the United States of America. Northern states had factories which wanted protection from foreign goods. Southern states had cotton and tobacco that they wanted to sell to Europe which paid them higher prices.
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware. They might not have welcomed the label of 'Northern'. But when the test came, they (narrowly) voted against the Confederates, and stayed loyal to the Union.
Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 with a platform against slavery in the territories but for tariffs a transcontinental railroad and a Homestead Act.
Presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln won the state of Michigan during the 1860 presidential election. Lincoln won most of the Midwest and northern states.
They hated tariffs. All they were making was cotton. Tariffs increased the cost of imports.
Tariffs worked mostly (and probably only) for the Northern states.
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In 1860, Northern states had 110,000 manufacturing establishments. In contrast to this the South had only 18,000.
slavery states rights Tariffs on imported goods, to protect Northern manufacturing industry. Congress was able to levy these tariffs because the Northern states dominated the vote. The South only had one industry - cotton - so it needed many imports. It saw the tariffs as a hostile tax on the South.
The tariffs protected Northern industries which made the Southerners that wanted to sell their cotton to England unhappy.
They were located in the northern states. The south was mainly agriculture.
Refuse to pay the tariffs - Nullification of 1828.
The Northern states believed that tariffs were necessary for their businesses to prosper. Tariffs on British products would make those products cost more than similar ones made in America. As a result, Americans would be more likely to buy goods made in their own country instead of those made in other countries.
Northern industrialists favored tariffs.