I don't think it was all that complex when you visualize it properly.
Most of that money belonged to the South. The North wanted to keep it.
I don't think it was all that complex when you visualize it properly.
Most of that money belonged to the South. The North wanted to keep it.
Awesome graphic. It does illustrate the economic aspect rather irrefutably, assuming that the first step before assessing tariff revenues was to cheaply import the goods from the south to the north and then execute the lucrative trade.
How did the tariff money belong to the South? Wasn’t it paid on goods imported from Europe?