We'll show you how to roast vegetables in the oven including delicious recipes. Plus, get our no-fail guide for how long to roast vegetables. This showy cooking method can easily feed a crowd or just a couple, and it lets you choose the vegetables.
To protect their businesses and local markets from foreign competition, countries have one very potent tool they can utilize: the protective tariff. Protective tariffs are taxes, duties, or other roadblocks (generally in the form of monetary fees) placed on foreign goods by a national or state government in order to protect domestic products and markets.
The tariff sought to protect northern and western agricultural products from competition with foreign imports; however, the resulting tax on foreign goods would raise the cost of living in the South and would cut into the profits of New England's industrialists.