Historian Howard K. Beale argued that high tariffs were retained after the American Civil War to benefit Northern industrialists, who utilized the Republican Party and Reconstruction policies to maintain political control of Congress and exclude low-tariff Southern whites from power.

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  History of tariffs in the United States - Wikipedia

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