Tariff Wars and the Politics of Jacksonian America /

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Before the Civil War, the American people did not have to worry about a federal tax collector coming to their door. The reason for this was the tariff, taxing foreign goods and imports on arrival in the United States. Yet debates in Congress over the tariff were acrimonious, with pitched arguments b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bolt, William K., 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Handelspolitik
Tariff.
Politics and government.
Commercial policy.
Tariff > United States > History > 19th century.
USA
United States.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1829-1837.
United States > Commercial policy > History > 19th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1829-1837.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "The new system which out Hamiltons Alexander Hamilton"
  • "Whatever the people will, at any particular moment, must be done"
  • "A step between the throne and the scaffold"
  • Judicious and injudicious tariffs
  • Scratching and itch
  • The Harrisburg Convention
  • Wolves in sheep's clothing
  • "The people are greatly excited on the subject of the tariff"
  • "Every American must give up a little for his country"
  • "Repeal the tariff or repeal the union"
  • "Our country is at an awful and momentous crisis"
  • The winter of discontent
  • "Democracy seeks the benefit of all at the expense of none"
  • "Congress should be made to see and hear that the people are in earnest"
  • "If you elect us boys, the tariff of 1842 is safe"
  • "Mr. Polk's death warrant is sealed"
  • "Even the tariff is not a question on which opposite political parties are united in taking opposite sides"
  • "Free trade and slavery are twin measures."

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