Many colonists felt that they should not pay these taxes, because they were passed in England by Parliament, not by their own colonial governments. They protested, saying that these taxes violated their rights as British citizens. The colonists started to resist by boycotting, or not buying, British goods. so Yes
the lack of new factory jobs in the North" was not an economic problem facing the United States at the end of the Civil War. The others were all quite serious problems.
