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Protective tariff design to protect American industry from cheaper British commodities.
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Raised tax on imports to reduce foreign competition with American industry. Called the Tariff of Abomination by the south.
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Created to stop land speculations due to states printing paper money without specie (gold or silver). Requiring land to be paid in specie.
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Created to lower rates after southern objections to the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.
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Made large cuts to the Tariff of 1842 by the Whig party.
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Added excise taxes and instituted the first income tax.
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Promoted settlement on the Great Plains by offering 160 acres of land for free to families for five years.
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Encourages states to use the sale of federal land grants to maintain agricultural and technical colleges.
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Authorized the building of a transcontinental railroad over northern routes to create link economies of Calfornia with eastern states.
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Reduced high tariffs a certain amount and replaced it with slightly strong protectionist barriers.
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Raised the tax on foreign products to a peacetime high of more than 48%.
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Prohibited monopolies from creating Trusts.
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The hope of creating markets for business in Latin America.
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Provided a moderate reduction in tariff rates and included a 2% income tax on incomes more than $2,000.
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Increased the tariff to more than 46% and in 1900 making gold an official standard of the US currency,
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The US sought to trade freely with China
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Allowed the Interstate Commerce Commission to have the authority to prevent railroads from giving rebates to favored customers.
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Interstate Commerce Commissions (ICC) could fix just and reasonable rates for railroads.
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Passed by conservative Republicans, it raised the tariff on most imports.
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Gave ICC the power to suspend new railroad rates and oversee telephone, telegraph, and cable companies.
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Substantially lowered tariffs and included a graduate income tax with rates from 1 to 6 percent.
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Authorized US gov. to collect an income tax.
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Organized unions and contained a clause exempting unions from being prosecuted trusts. It strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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Agency empowered to investigate and take action against any unfair trade practice in all industries except banking and transportation.
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Establish a national banking system with 12 district banks supervised by the Federal Reserve Board.
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Establish 12 regional farm loan banks to give farm loans at low rates.
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Approved by Senator Warren G. Harding, it increased tariff rates.
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Created by Charles Dawes. It established a cycle of payments from the US to Germany and from Germany to the Allies. Decreasing war debt.
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Increased tax by 31% to 49% on foreign imports.
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Employed young men for projects on federal land and offer their families small monthly sums of money.
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Increased regulation on banks and limited how banks invest customer's money.
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Allotted money to states and local governments for construction projects, a source of thousands of jobs.
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An agency that hired laborers for temporary construction projects sponsored by federal gov.