imports into the north's largest port, NYC, halved practically overnight when the Morrill Act was adopted in March 1861
Explain how the expenditure by the govenment of millions on the war, and the raising of millions more by voluntary donation, had absolutely no impact on the volume of imports into the US.
Till you learn to cope with this, you are just reciting rote learning without adequate thought my little boy. LOL
You accuse me of making a democratic rant yet you are the one spouting off excuses for blatant protectionism that read as if they could have come from an AFL-CIO press release. Curious.
Explain how the expenditure by the govenment of millions on the war, and the raising of millions more by voluntary donation, had absolutely no impact on the volume of imports into the US.
As of March 1861 that is easy. It's all a matter of the timeline. The war didn't start at all until mid April 1861 and didn't kick into full gear until after July 1861. The so-called "donation" program, which was really a credit scheme to make vested interests rich off the waging of the war, did not pass into law until February 1862. So as of March 1861 when trade started its rapid decline, the expenditures you speak of simply had not yet occurred and therefore cannot be the cause of that decline.
Till you learn to cope with this
No further learning is necessary, nor are you qualified to teach it if there were seeing as you do not even understand what you speak about. I coped with this little non-argument of yours about four posts ago - a counterargument which you have intentionally ignored. I also coped with it just now by repeating what I said previously though I do not expect that you will recieve it any differently than you did the last time. But go ahead and pretend the timeline isn't there. Go ahead and pretend that you can change its order of events around to suit your uneducated and sloppily argued agenda. Go ahead and keep making apologies for blatant protectionism and the yankee interests that used it to leach off of the country and build their own personal riches for half a century before the war. Go ahead and embarrass yourself further by attempting to discuss an issue that you neither understand nor have an honest interest in understanding. It will undoubtedly provide great amusement for the rest of us.