1 ottob 1890 anni - McKinley Tariff

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-1890, Protective tariff which raised the tax on foreign products to a peacetime high of over 48%, benefited republican industrialists

-damaged farmers that had to buy high-priced manufactured goods while selling exported agricultural products into competitive, unprotected world markets

-caused republicans to lose majority in congressional elections of 1890

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