What is Wilson–Gorman Tariff Act?
[[File:Grover Cleveland and Wilson-Gorman Tariff Cartoon.jpg|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|The passage of this bill was seen as a [[victory]] for the Sugar business and a [[defeat]] for president Grover Cleveland (shown here as a [[slave]] in [[wikt:chain|chain]]s)}}]] The '''Wilson-Gorman Tariff''' of 1894 (also called the '''Income Tax Act of 1894''') was a [[bill (proposed law)|bill]] passed by [[United States Congress|Congress]] that reduced the [[Tariff]]s on certain [[import]]s into the [[United States]].<ref name=otdNYT>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0908.html |title=On This Day: Gorman's Triumph--A Humiliating Spectacle |publisher=The New York Times |access-date=20 May 2016}}</ref> The final [[wikt:version|version]] lowered [[wikt:duty|duties]] slightly, but added a number of other [[wikt:provision|provision]]s. One of these was a 2% [[Federal government of the United States|federal]] [[income tax]]. Other items such as [[coal]], [[lumber]], [[wool|and wool]] were added to the duty-free list, <ref name=thmTA>{{cite web |url=http://www.taxhistory.org/www/website.nsf/Web/THM1866?OpenDocument |title=Tax History Museum: 1866–1900: Reconstruction to the Spanish-American War |publisher=Tax Analysts |access-date=20 May 2016}}</ref> while sugar was removed from the duty-free list (where it had been included as a result of the McKinley Tariff of 1890). [[Debate]]s over tariffs had been going on since [[United States|America]] became a [[country]]. As the US became increasingly [[Industrialization|industrialized]], the debates became more heated. The act was an effort by Democrats to help the country recover from the [[Panic of 1893]], a serious [[Depression (economics)|economic depression]].<ref name=McCollomSC>{{cite web |url=http://study.com/academy/lesson/effects-of-the-wilson-gorman-tariff-act-of-1894.html |title=Effects of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act of 1894 |author=Jason McCollom |publisher=Study.com |access-date=20 May 2016}}</ref> It tried to accomplish this by lowe