'Tariff of Abominations': America's Long, Strange History With Trade Battles

President Donald Trump's use of tariffs as a foreign policy tool has reignited historical debates on protectionism, echoing past economic battles in American history. (Getty Images)

By    |   Wednesday, 12 March 2025 07:21 AM EDT ET

Tariffs in American politics have been the source of periodic upheavals but lingering uncertainty.

The "Tariff of Abominations" nearly sparked the U.S. Civil War three decades early. And the "Great Tariff Debate of 1888" was a sharp partisan political battle over a strange crisis — too much revenue flowing into the federal government.

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