Ghana grew wealthy from trade through taxation. Along with gold and salt traders carried copper, silver, cloth and spices. As Ghana was in a prime location in between salt and gold mines, rulers taxed traders passing through Ghana. Traders had to pay taxes on the goods they carried to Ghana and took away with them.
Answer: Other congressmen argued that the congress did not yet have sufficient constitutional power to enact this law. Following passage of the fourteenth Amendment in 1868 congress ratified the 1866 ACT in 1870.
