Protective Tariffs & Nullification Crisis

Tariffs (a tax on imported goods) would encourage people to buy from domestic manufacturers instead of foreign.

This helped NORTHERN manufactures but the SOUTH would not benefit because their economy was based on import and export.

Do we still have tariffs on imported good today?

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South Carolina, wanted to secede because of the Tariff of 1828, also known as the Tariff of Abominations.

The Tariff of Abominations charged tariffs/taxes on imported goods.

A tariff on imported goods were damaging to the economy of the south.

The reason for seceding was that only the south would benefit with the Tariffs of 1828