Tariff Wars and the Politics of Jacksonian America

by William K Bolt

Before the Civil War, the American people did not have to worry about a federal tax collector coming to their door. The reason why was the tariff, taxing foreign goods and imports on arrival in the United States. Tariff Wars and the Politics of Jacksonian America attempts to show why the tariff was an important part of the national narrative in the antebellum period. The debates in Congress over the tariff were acrimonious, with pitched arguments...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826521363
• ISBN13: 9780826521361
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 10.1"