The first tariff mentioned was that of 1832, 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 ...

For example, on May 19, 1828 ... concerns in the North, the tariff devastated the South and its cotton exports. In that region, it was termed the “Tariff of Abominations” and directly led ...

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 ...