History of the United States I / Unit 10 USH1 1358 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Tariff Sequence
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The idea
Congress approved a tariff in seventeen eighty-nine, Hamilton proposed a protective tariff in seventeen ninety, and further tariffs passed in eighteen sixteen and eighteen twenty-four.
In practice
Adams proposing in eighteen twenty-eight a tariff amounting to fifty percent of the value of imported goods.
Where people slip
Tariffs were not new. What changed in eighteen twenty-eight was the rate and who felt it.
Your place on the trail
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