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Savannah, Georgia, a major Southern port, 1818
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The main reason
southerners opposed protective tariffs was because
(A) they supported the concept of free trade
(B) they worried that tariffs would lead to financial panics
(C) they believed that tariffs were unconstitutional
(D) they imported a large amount of manufactured goods
(E) the Whig Party favored them
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