Hey everyone, thanks for tuning in to the fourth episode of our Civil Ward Podcast.

I'm Rich, and here with me, as always, is Tracy.

Hello y'all, welcome to the podcast.

Previously on the show, we talked about the tense heated debates surrounding the passage

of the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and we highlighted Henry Clay's key role in finding

a solution to the crisis.

But although the Missouri Compromise defused the immediate crisis and prevented disunion

in the short term, it did nothing to solve the larger issue, which was the question of

Congress's right to legislate on slavery and prohibit its further expansion into western

territories.

However, slavery wasn't the only issue that imperiled the state of the union during this

period.

This next crisis we'll look at started to build toward a boiling point in the late 1820s,

but actually had its roots in laws passed about 15 years earlier.

You see after the War of 1812, the increasing industrialization of the North meant that

region was soon calling for a protective tariff to give American products a leg up on

foreign competition.

Before that time, tariffs had been enacted solely to raise revenue, but in 1816, Congress

passed the first protective tariff.

The new law levied a stiff duty on manufactured goods imported from abroad.

Well, southerners were none too happy over this development.

They said it favored northern industry at the expense of southern interests.

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