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We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue ...

Tariff legislation has always been a fraught issue, requiring considerable effort by the legislative branch to debate and iron out competing interests. Those battles have been memorialized in American ...

Southern firebreathers denounced the Tariff Act of 1828 as the “Tariff of Abominations.” Vice President John C. Calhoun, South Carolina’s most famous son, published an anonymous tract called ...

For example, on May 19, 1828, President John Quincy Adams signed ... Though meant to protect manufacturing concerns in the North, the tariff devastated the South and its cotton exports.