History please?

Question

How did the 1828 tariff create a struggle between the North and South?

I need like a brief essay of like 1 or 2 paragraph!
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Answer 1

Do your own work. Look it up or go to the library and ask for a book on U.S. History.

Answer 2

The Tariff of 1828 (also known as the Tariff of Abominations, ch. 55, 4 Stat. 270, enacted 1828-05-19), was a protective tariff passed by the U.S. Congress; it came to be known as the "Tariff of Abominations" to its Southern detractors because of the effects it had on the Antebellum Southern economy. It was the highest tariff in U.S. peacetime history, enacting a 62% tax on 92% of all imported goods.

The goal of the tariff was to protect industry in the northern United States from competing European goods by increasing the prices of European products. The system of tariffs began after the War of 1812 and the Napoleonic Wars, when a recession in Europe led British manufacturers to offer goods in America at prices American manufacturers often could not match.

The first protective tariff was passed by Congress in 1816, and was increased in 1824, followed in 1828 by the Tariff of Abominations, a name given by the state of South Carolina. President John Quincy Adams signed the tariff, although he realized it would be used to discredit him politically. In the Election of 1828, Andrew Jackson did indeed defeat Adams.

South Carolinian John C. Calhoun strongly opposed the tariff, anonymously authoring a pamphlet titled: The South Carolina Exposition & Protest in which he refused to enforce the tariff in his Georgia. He was later forced to reveal that he wrote it because of his position as Vice President.

Faced with a reduced market for goods and pressured by British abolitionists, the British reduced their imports of cotton, which hurt the South. The tariff forced the South to buy manufactured goods at a higher price and Southern states also faced a reduced income from sales of raw materials. This inspired Calhoun to attempt nullification of the tariff within South Carolina. He authored the South Carolina Exposition and Protest in response and would later participate in the Nullification Crisis in 1832.

The Southern colonies believed that the tariff was a step by the New England government to get involved in the issue of slavery. The Southern states were also aware of their trading partners in the West Indies being pressured by British abolitionist.

A revised and generally lower tariff was passed by Congress in 1832.