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Tariff of Abominations
Event Details
Time: May 19, 2018 all day
Location: South Carolina
Website or Map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…
Event Type: history, tariffs, president, jackson, nullification, act
Organized By: John Voris, Lead Coordinator
Latest Activity: Jun 5, 2019
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Event Description
Increasingly, the Smoot Hawley Tariffs of 1930 are being mentioned in the news and discussions of the current Federal administration's possible tariffs.
But the . . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff_of_Abominations is the other comparison that might be made. It was the highest tariff in U.S. peacetime history up to that point, enacting a 62% tax on 92% of all imported goods.
It was enacted on May 19 1828 and lead to the Nullification Act of South Carolina requiring President Jackson to enforce Federal Law over State Law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullification_Crisis
And the Philadelphia Connection ?
There are a couple of Pennsylvania connections in the resulting policies, but no Philadelphia connection per se.
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