Morrill Tariff was an increased import tariff in the United States that was adopted on March 2,1861, during the administration of US President James Buchanan, a Democrat.
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15 Facts About Morrill Tariff
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Morrill Tariff replaced a lower Tariff of 1857 which, according to historian Kenneth Stampp, had been developed in response to a federal budget surplus in the mid-1850s.
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Morrill Tariff inaugurated a period of continuous protectionism in the United States, and that policy remained until the adoption of the Revenue Act of 1913, or Underwood Morrill Tariff.
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Morrill Tariff's opinion was widely circulated in the protectionist media for higher tariffs.
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Ways and Means members Morrill and Henry Winter Davis, a Maryland "American, " produced the Republican proposal to raise the tariffs.
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Morrill Tariff bill was passed out of the Ways and Means Committee.
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Morrill Tariff signed the bill into law as one of his last acts in office.
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Morrill Tariff took effect one month after it was signed into law.
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Morrill Tariff was drafted and passed the House before the Civil War began or was expected, and it was passed by the Senate after seven States had seceded.
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Morrill Tariff was met with intense hostility in Britain, where free trade dominated public opinion.
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Southern diplomats and agents sought to use British ire towards the Morrill Tariff to garner sympathy, with the aim of obtaining British recognition for the Confederacy.
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Marx reacted to those who blamed the war on the Morrill Tariff and argued instead that slavery had induced secession and that the tariff was just a pretext.
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Naturally, in America everyone knew that from 1846 to 1861 a free trade system prevailed, and that Representative Morrill carried his protectionist tariff through Congress only in 1861, after the rebellion had already broken out.
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Secession, therefore, did not take place because the Morrill tariff had gone through Congress, but, at most, the Morrill tariff went through Congress because secession had taken place.
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The Morrill tariff formed no exception to the usual course of things in this respect.
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