Matt Foley
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Learn your history. Lincoln promised to disallow the spread of slavery-the South took this as a threat to their economic and political power.
And the Tariff is just one of the many strategies to combat it.
The "tariffs" you are referring to are perhaps those of 1828. Post 1828 the north and south compromised to lower tarrifs..
The tariffs I am referring to are the ones Lincoln, and his majority Republicans in Congress, promised to pass the first second he got into Washington. They are significantly higher.
The tariffs that were enacted around the time of the civil war-morille or something like that were enacted after much of the south had already seceded giving the north a majority.
A) Morrill Tariff was enacted days before Lincoln got into office
B) 37th United States Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Pro-Tariff Republicans had both houses, Lincoln walks in, no chance in hell Tariff is going to be repealed, the South then throw a temper tantrum.