Everything about The Mckinley Tariff totally explained
The
McKinley Tariff of
1890 was what set the average
ad valorem tariff rate for imports to the
United States at 48.4%, and protected manufacturing. Its chief proponent was
Congressman and future
President William McKinley.
In return for its passage, the
Sherman Silver Purchase Act was given
Republican support. It raised the prices in the United States under
Benjamin Harrison, which may have cost him his presidency in the next elections.
The tariff was in fact the harshest detrimental to the American farmers. Not only did the tariff drive up the prices of farm equipment (since wages and imported components were more expensive), it also failed to halt sliding agricultural prices, possibly since there wasn't much competition with imported goods since American agricultural produce was already cheaper than imports.
The following agrarian resentment would give rise to the Free Silver movement and the Populist Party.
Concise Statement: The McKinley Tariff Act raised tariffs and brought new trouble to farmers, who were forced to buy high-priced, protected products from American manufacturers but sell their own products into highly competitive, unprotected world markets. This upset many rural voters, who voted many Republicans out of office in the next congressional elections (1890).
Ironically however, the McKinley Tariff was a direct contributing factor to the
Panic of 1893 which resulted in the smashing defeat of
Democrats in the 1894 Congressional mid-term elections. Additionally, the reverberations of the Panic were still being felt during the Presidential Election of 1896 which helped sweep Republican William McKinley into the
White House.
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