Hummm? Only helped the North? In time of war, do you think we need a Navy? What’s a Navy need? Sailors and ships? So if the federal government made sure we had both by spending a relatively small sum assuring we had experienced sailors and shipyards with skilled craftsmen to build ships, I’d say the entire nation benefited.
BTW. Nothing kept fishermen and woodbe boat builders in the South from taking part in that… nothing other that the fact that the wealth of the south was heavily invested in plantations and slaves. Why bet your money on ships and sailors that could easily be lost in a storm when you could make more money by driving slaves rather than sailing the seas.
No, just helped the North overwhelmingly more than the South despite the fact that the South was paying a grossly disproportional share of the tariff.
In time of war, do you think we need a Navy? What’s a Navy need? Sailors and ships? So if the federal government made sure we had both by spending a relatively small sum assuring we had experienced sailors and shipyards with skilled craftsmen to build ships, I’d say the entire nation benefited.
Southerners noticed after a little while all these supposed "national" benefits always benefitted the North directly and overwhelmingly.
BTW. Nothing kept fishermen and woodbe boat builders in the South from taking part in that…
By and large the better fishing grounds (seas) were up North while the better climate for producing lucrative cash crops was in the South.
nothing other that the fact that the wealth of the south was heavily invested in plantations and slaves. Why bet your money on ships and sailors that could easily be lost in a storm when you could make more money by driving slaves rather than sailing the seas.
Capital generally flows to the investment that yields the highest return. This phenomenon has been noted repeatedly in numerous countries. Quick! Name a company from the Middle East that makes something. You can't. Their investment overwhelmingly goes into oil production because that yields the highest return. Same deal for Russia. There isn't a single big Russian brand. Energy production yields the highest returns so it gets most of the investment.