[SoCal Pubbie]

It means ports in what would become Union states were paying a lot more tariffs than those that would be Confederate.

I’m looking for the specific tariff acts, who passes and signed them, and how they unfairly targeted southern states that would precipitate secession. I doubt you’ll be able to.

[Ohioan]

Here is how one prominent Virginia author saw the question in a novel in 1836:

The Partisan Leader.

[DiogenesLamp]

It means ports in what would become Union states were paying a lot more tariffs than those that would be Confederate.

That's what it looks like, doesn't it? :)

Obviously the North was producing the vast majority of that wealth represented by those tariff collections, wouldn't you think?

I’m looking for the specific tariff acts, who passes and signed them, and how they unfairly targeted southern states that would precipitate secession.

You can start there, but that's not the important part of the story. Find out the value of Northern export Products to Europe. That's a better place to start.

I doubt you’ll be able to.

I think you are going to get surprised.