In the United States, in the early 1800s,?

Question

a. all sectors opposed high tariffs.

b. Southern farmers favored high tariffs while Northern manufacturers opposed them.

c. Southern farmers opposed high tariffs while Northern manufacturers favored them.

d. all sectors favored high tariffs.

Answer 1

Southern farmers favored war with lightly populated British colonies in the North (Canada) in order to stimulate the free flow of trade to the South.

Tariffs meant little when merchant seamen were in constant danger from being impressed by heavily armed British warships.

Answer 2

C. Southern farmers opposed because they could not afford the more expensive goods. Northerners favored them because the North made goods and less competition would make there goods more expensive.