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.
“The Navigation Acts, or more broadly the Acts of Trade and Navigation, was a long series of English laws that developed, promoted, and regulated English ships, shipping, trade, and commerce between other countries and with its own colonies. The laws also regulated England’s fisheries and restricted foreigners’ participation in its colonial trade.[1]”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation_Acts
Was the English Parliament trying to subjugate Dixie too?