We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff thanks to a gesture of good will from Yankees to the Old South in 1913 ...

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 at that time. All the tariffs after this were ...

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 ...

For example, on May 19, 1828, President John Quincy Adams signed ... Though meant to protect manufacturing concerns in the North, the tariff devastated the South and its cotton exports.