Why did most in Mississippi support this ordinance passed in South Carolina?
Read the excerpt and then answer the following
question
Whereas the Congress of the United States by various
acts, purporting to be acts laying duties and imposts on
foreign imports, but in reality intended for the protection
of domestie manufactures and the giving of bounties to
classes and individuals engaged in particular
employments, at the expense and to the injury and
oppression of other classes and individuals, and by
wholly exempting from taxation certain foreign
commodities, such as are not produced or manufactured
in the United States, the United States) hath raised
and collected unnecessary revenue for objects
unauthorized by the constitution
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
1892
They depended on exporting their cotton overseas
They had no desire to buy manufactured goods
They wanted to protect slavery
They wanted to increase the number of factories in
the state