The Democrats, who before 1860 definitely opposed protective tariffs, federal banking, internal improvements, and heavy taxes, now spoke cautiously on all these points.
The North was now free to pursue its economic policies: a protective tariff, a national banking system, land grants for railways, free lands for farmers.
The planters of the South, almost without exception, looked upon the protective tariff as a tribute laid upon them for the benefit of Northern industries.
In 1888, when Cleveland was running for his second term for re-election as president, the big issue in the country was something called " protective tariffs."
Mr. Carnegie also enjoyed the advantages of a high protective tariff, though about 1900 he discovered that his extremely healthy infant no longer demanded this form of coddling.
Also under Hamilton's aegis, a decimally based currency was adopted, an excise tax was imposed on whiskey, and a protective tariff was adopted to favor domestic goods.