REGIONAL ISSUES & CONTROVERSIES

TARIFFS North Favored tariffs – because if foreign goods were more expensive, consumers were more likely to buy American goods, and this would mean more factories and jobs

TARIFFS South Against tariffs – raised the price of imports for southerners

TARIFFS West Favored tariffs – tariffs would help encourage growth of American industry and cities in north, and they hoped to sell the products of their farms to northern workers

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS North Liked tariffs paying for Internal Improvements; needed roads to move raw materials to the factories and carry finished goods to market

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS South Did not feel the need for large-scale road and canal construction because they relied largely on rivers for transportation

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS West Felt internal improvements were necessary to ship their farm products to the east and get factory-produced goods to the west

WESTERN LANDS North Opposed government’s selling of too much land too cheaply in the west; thought cheap western land would tempt city dwellers in the east to move west and decrease factory labor force

WESTERN LANDS South “Suspicious” of cheap western land; afraid that competition from western farmers would threaten their cotton sales

WESTERN LANDS West Favored cheap available land; wanted more settlers quickly so the territories could become states faster and have representation in congress