Tariff legislation has always been a fraught issue, requiring considerable effort by the legislative branch to debate and ...

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He voted against the tariff of 1828, and in the debate concerning the powers of the Vice-President, supported the positions assumed by Mr. CALHOUN. On the accession of JACKSON to the Presidency ...

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Herbert Hoover signed the retaliatory Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, and it only made the Great Depression worse. | Opinion ...

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.

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