Douglas Irwin rejects the revisionist claim, often associated with the Lost Cause narrative, that the Morrill Tariff triggered the American Civil War, arguing instead that the tariff only passed because Southern states had already seceded and their representatives were no longer in Congress to oppose it.

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  History of tariffs in the United States - Wikipedia

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