Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont

SUCH A DEAL!!!

There was no income tax in 1861, the government was supported by tariffs. The South conservatively imported about 70% of the nations goods and therefore paid about 70% of the nations taxes, yet it only represented about 33% of the nations population...

Most of the revenue collected in the South was spent in the North on roads, bridges, canal and railroads...

Obviously Southern states were opposed to the new Morrill Tariff and it was particularly unpopular in England, which imported cotton from the South and in turn exported goods there. 

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