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How did the tariff impact the economies of the South and the North differently?

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Many analysts call the conflict between the south and north, in the American Civil War, a "tariff war". The north financed its industrialization through high rates of imports of primary goods, which undermined the economic functioning of the south, which in turn required agricultural machinery.


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