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  2. History of tariffs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Tariff of 1842 returned the tariff to the level of 1832, with duties averaging between 23% and 35%. The Walker Tariff of 1846 essentially focused on revenue and reversed the trend of substituting specific for ad valorem duties. The Tariff of 1857 reduced the tariff to a general level of 20%, the lowest rate since 1830, and expanded the free ...

  3. Justin S. Morrill - Wikipedia

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    The Morrill Tariff of 1861 was a protective tariff law adopted on March 2, 1861. Passed after anti-tariff southerners had left Congress during the process of secession, Morrill designed it with the advice of Pennsylvania economist Henry C. Carey. [13] It was one of the last acts signed into law by James Buchanan, and replaced the Tariff of 1857 ...

  4. Protectionism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    There was a brief episode of free trade from 1846, coinciding with the zenith of classical liberalism in Europe, during which American tariffs were lowered. But this was followed by a series of recessions and the panic of 1857, which eventually led to higher tariff demands than President James Buchanan, signed in 1861m the Morrill Tariff. [1]

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    A full-text database or a complete-text database is a database that contains the complete text of books, dissertations, journals, magazines, newspapers or other kinds of textual documents. They differ from bibliographic databases (which contain only bibliographical metadata , including abstracts in some cases) and non-bibliographic databases ...

  7. Full-text search - Wikipedia

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    In text retrieval, full-text search refers to techniques for searching a single computer-stored document or a collection in a full-text database. Full-text search is distinguished from searches based on metadata or on parts of the original texts represented in databases (such as titles, abstracts, selected sections, or bibliographical references).

  8. Prairie restoration - Wikipedia

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    Particularly with land previously dominated by prairie grasses, the loss of the tallgrass extensive fibrous root system left the soil exposed and unbound. [5] Ecologically , prairie restoration aids in conservation of earth's topsoil , which is often exposed to erosion from wind and rain (worsened by climate change's heavier and frequent rain ...

  9. File:Parliamentary Papers - 1857 Sess. 2 - Volume 43.pdf

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