President Trump recently instituted new tariffs on two allies and one adversary: 25% on goods from Mexico and Canada and 10% ...

From 1861 to 1890s, high tariffs dominated as the source of federal government revenue under Republican-led protectionism ...

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which virtually annulled all the abominations of the tariff of 1828. This tariff was planned by John Quincy Adams, the leader of the Republican party at that time. All the tariffs after this were ...

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.