Why did congress raise tariff rates in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

It protected the United States from competitors located in foreign countries. 

The 1st United States Congress, wanting a straightforward tax that was not ... tariffs the centerpiece of their economic policy beginning in 1861, and as late as ... Since 1935 tariff income has continued to be a declining 

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