As much as 3.5 trillion has to do with "Infrastructure." The "navigation act" was protectionism for Northeastern shipping interests. Just like the current liberals voting rights act they are trying to pass simply encourages election fraud, so too do they like to name bills in an innocuous or heroic sounding manner, but the bills often do something very different. Usually some form of corruption or favor for special interests.
Furthermore, the purpose of such legislation was to protect domestic industries,...
Now you are getting it. And where were these industries it was protecting primarily located?
DiogenesLamp: "Now you are getting it.
And where were these industries it was protecting primarily located?"
First, Southern industries, of which there were some, were as well protected as Northern.
Second, Republicans then as now "put Americans first", while Democrats were & are anti-American globalists, who wanted to ship American manufacturing jobs overseas, so they could buy cheaper imports.
So while DiogenesLamp babbles endlessly about "Northeastern Power Brokers", the fact is in 1860 those were Northern Democrats allied with Southern slavers to keep US jobs down and cheaper foreign imports up.
Democrats like DiogenesLamp were & are anti-American.