Protective tariffs in the early history of the United States benefited the economies of many Northern states but left Southerners upset with the tariffs. What were the reasons for the those reactions to the protective tariffs? * 1. The manufacturing businesses in the North were able to sell their products for higher prices in the United States because the tariffs made goods made overseas more expensive in the United States.
2. Southerners produced mainly agricultural goods and the prices they received from their overseas customers had to be dropped because those countries raised tariffs on agricultural goods raised in the South.
3. The tariff had little or no effect on imports and exports in the United States.
4. The first and second responses above are correct.