Statement I: Business-Oriented Republican Administrations Kept Tariffs High from the Beginning

question 258

Multiple Choice

Statement I: Business-oriented Republican administrations kept tariffs high from the beginning of the Civil War to the Underwood Tariff of 1913.
Statement II: The Tariff of Abominations of 1828 was abominable to the South that wanted to export their cotton to England for manufactured goods.

• A)Statement I is true and statement II is false.
• B)Statement II is true and statement I is false.
• C)Both statements are true.
• D)Both statements are false.

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