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1 Why did northerners disagree with southerners on the issue of tariffs?​

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Tariffs protected Northerners factories from foreign competition because they made imported goods more expensive than American-made. Southerns depended on trading cotton in exchange for foreign goods. Rising tariffs hurt the South's economy.

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