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Tariff of 1828: North Carolina
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When students return with the information gained from this activity, begin a discussion about the basic differences in the commercial economies of North and South, and about how the tariffs embittered the relationship between the two regions. If students do not bring this up, point out that while the diversified manufactures of the North were occupying a greater part of the overall U.S. economy, the southern agricultural economy was growing increasingly dependent on one crop—cotton.
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Southern memorials to Congress complained bitterly of the unequal effects of the tariff and the failure of the program of internal improvements to benefit the South. Senator George MacDuffie argued that, of every 100 bales of cotton produced in the South, 40 of them were stolen by the North. This was an exaggeration, but Van Deusen's (1928) study shows that the costs to the South were by no means insignificant.
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President James K. Polk, a native Tar Heel, entered the White House with a commitment to lower the tariff of 1842. Image courtesy of the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Raleigh, NC.
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