Question

Which statement below explains why northern states favored high tariffs

A) Tariffs would protect manufacturing companies from European competition
B) Tariffs would force the south to give up it’s plantation economy and to free slaves
C) Tariffs would help the nation pay off the debts from the revolutionary war
D) Tariffs would protect southern plantations from European competition

Answer 1

answer is a) tariffs would protect manufacturing companies from European competition