The North was in favor of tariffs, while the South hated tariffs. This was because the North was focused on industrialization and the South was focused on agriculture.
A tariff is essentially a tax on foreign goods. It helped protect factories and businesses within the United States, as it made people want to buy from their own country since there was no foreign tax. This was <u>good for the North</u>, as more people were buying their products as opposed to them buying elsewhere. This was <u>not good for the South</u> though, as the South normally sold their goods overseas. This made their products look less desirable to foreign countries, as there was now a tax on them. The South also was buying a lot from overseas, but now it was more expensive.
<span>The Lone Star Republic. At the time Spain granted independence to Mexico in 1821, the land now comprising the state of Texas was very sparsely populated. The Mexican government actually encouraged the settlement of the area by American pioneers.
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The Great Depression is an effect of the stock market crash
:His head stone reads "I know no north,no south, no east, no west"
Their plan was called the Anaconda plan.
They wanted to blockade the Southern coast to prevent them from receiving resources from other countries. They also wanted to capture the Mississippi River to effectively cut the Confederacy in half (Battle of Vicksburg). The final step in their plan was to capture the Confederate capital city (Richmond).
