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jan 10, 1909 - Payne-Aldrich Tariff

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|BACKGROUND| during taft's 1908 campaign, he promised to lower tariffs, but conservative republicans in congress passed this tariff which |WHAT| raised the tariff on most imports. |EFFECT| angered progressives not only bc taft signed the tariff bill but bc he made a public statement in its defense

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jan 10, 1909
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~ 117 years ago