Why might interests in the industrializing North have wanted such a tariff even though the agricultural South would have fought it

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And be it further enacted, that so much of the second section of the act of the fourteenth of July aforesaid as fixes the rate of duty on all milled and fulled cloth, known by the names of plains, kerseyes, or Kendal cottons, of which wool is the only material, the value whereof does not exceed thirty-five cents a square yard, at fiver per centum ad valorem, shall be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

 

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Why might interests in the industrializing North have wanted such a tariff even though the agricultural South would have fought it?

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    A.

    It protected the growing textile industry.

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    B.

    It opened new land for cotton production.

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    C.

    It drove down the cost of industrial cloth.

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    D.

    It made it more difficult to sell cotton.

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