explain how the tariff of 1824 contributed to the sectional conflict during the jacksonian era?

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social studies

Answer 1

The United States had evolved into a nation where different areas were stronger in different economic systems. The U.S. was also competing in the world - usually against the economic strengths of England and France - as it built up its economy. The North was developing from small farms into an industrial area where factories were producing goods to sell to the world. One of the raw materials used was cotton from the South.
The South was growing from an agricultural base. Cotton was the most important crop, and cotton was sold both to the North and to the world.
The West was growing into an agricultural base with grains and cattle the source of income.
A tariff is a tax on imported goods. A low tariff is used to raise money for the government. It just skims a little of the price from an import, and the loss is made up by adding a bit to the sale price. The customer doesn't like this but buys it anyway.
A high tariff adds much more to the price of an import, perhaps doubling the price. It is used to stop the import of a good, because the customer will not pay that much.
The North favored a high tariff against the import of textiles so that its textile producers could sell their goods. It was aimed at European textile manufacturers. But those manufacturers bought a lot of cotton from the South. So, the South was against the high tariff.
The West did not particularly like the high tariff because the goods from Northern manufacturers cost more than the goods from European manufactures.
The politics encouraged the South to move more people into the West so more states would be on the side of the South in the government and could defeat high tariff laws when they were proposed by a Northern state.
This economic and political situation was the fundamental cause of the Civil War.

Answer 2

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explain how the tariff of 1824 contributed to the sectional conflict during the jacksonian era?
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Answer 3

Tariff Of 1824

Answer 4

The tariff of 1824 was the first conflict between the North and South, because the tariff was established to protect the selling American commodities verses British. The South believed this would only benefit the North, and would be an expense to the South.

Answer 5

Tariffs, a tax on imports and exports, had been used since the beginning of the Republic for Federal income. However, by 1824, the Federal Treasury reported a surplus, so any tariff rate increases had little to do with revenue needs. Instead there were two main factors behind this tariff:
1) The need of the newly established New England textile industry from protection against the older and more technically advanced British industries ( Lowell had only established the first "complete" spinning factory in 1817 http://inventors.about.com/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/textile_2.htm )
2) The need for internal improvements (canals, turnpikes) to connect the Western Frontier (then at the border of Missouri) with eastern markets.
Henry Clay, the Speaker of the House, was from Kentucky (then considered a Western state) proposed his American System. A program of federally sponsored internal economic development funded by a protective tariff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_System_(economics)
Although this concept was attractive to the new industrialists of the North, the land-owners / developers of the West, and the federally-minded followers of old Hamilton financial system (the Bank of the United States,0 there was one section that did not like the concept, the newly emerged "cotton" elite of the South. The South opposed the American System because its plantation owners were heavily reliant on production of cotton for export, and the American System produced lower demand for their cotton and created higher costs for manufactured goods.
Recent Congressional reapportionment reflecting population increases in the Ohio Valley and the North enabled the protective tariff to pass over southern opposition. More unified support for the tariff among New England legislators bespoke of the expansion of manufacturing in the region. Representatives like Daniel Webster of Massachusetts who previously opposed protection now advocated it unconditionally. Without protective duties, which accounted for an estimated three-fourths of textile manufacturing’s value added, half the New England industrial sector would have gone bankrupt, since European technology produced cloth much more cheaply than American mills could. The new tariff added a bill that levied a 35 percent duty on imported iron, wool, cotton, and hemp products to already existing duties (the Tariff of 1818.)
It was the passing of this tariff (and the subsequent tariff of Abominations in 1828) through the reapportioned Congress and the increase in federal power (in terms of projects) that led to
the Nullification Crisis (1832) http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0857121.html and set America on the road to Civil War.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

You should have taken better notes in class.

Answer 8

didn't you get some sort of reading from your instructor so you could answer your homework questions.

Answer 9

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