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Marc-William Palen. "The Civil War's Forgotten Transatlantic Tariff Debate and the Confederacy's Free Trade Diplomacy," Journal of the Civil War Era 3: 1 (March 2013): 35–61; Marc-William Palen, "Debating the Causes of the Civil War," Not Even Past: A Project of the University of Texas History Department (Retrieved November 3, 2011) Daniel ...
The question of how important the tariff was in causing the war stems from the Nullification Crisis, which was South Carolina's attempt to nullify a tariff and lasted from 1828 to 1832. The tariff was low after 1846, and the tariff issue faded into the background by 1860 when secession began.
For well over a century the federal government was largely financed by tariffs averaging about 20% on foreign imports. At the end of the American Civil War in 1865 about 63% of Federal income was generated by the excise taxes, which exceeded the 25.4% generated by tariffs. In 1915 during World War I, tariffs generated 30.1% of revenues.
This timeline of events leading to the American Civil War is a chronologically ordered list of ... tariff, the Tariff of 1832 ... ends the Oregon boundary dispute, ...
The American Civil War (1861–1865) was fought over the issue of slavery as well as tariff disputes. At the time of independence, the agrarian interests of the South were opposed to any protection, while the manufacturing interests of the North wanted to maintain it.
"The Civil War’s Forgotten Transatlantic Tariff Debate and the Confederacy’s Free Trade Diplomacy.” Journal of the Civil War Era 3#1 (2013), pp. 35–61, online . Paskoff, Paul F. "Measures of War: A Quantitative Examination of the Civil War's Destructiveness in the Confederacy", Civil War History (2008) 54#1 pp 35–62.
Here’s what one expert had to say about former President William McKinley, who Donald Trump has cited in support of new tariffs. Why Trump’s trade hero turned away from tariffs Skip to main ...
South Carolina Goes to War (1950) ISBN 1-57003-560-1; Cooper, William J. Jr. The South and the Politics of Slavery 1828–1856 (1978) ISBN 0-8071-0385-3; Craven, Avery. The Coming of the Civil War (1942) ISBN 0-226-11894-0; Ellis, Richard E. The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy, States' Rights, and the Nullification Crisis (1987) Freehling ...