Word: embargos
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...perhaps, benefitted the cotton manufacture while it was a young industry, had hardly helped the woollen manufacture, and had certainly had no beneficial effect in assisting the rise of the iron manufacture. In regard to the cotton and woollen manufacture, Mr. Taussig thought the restriction period, from the embargo in 1808 to the end of the war with England in 1815, had afforded a more effective stimulus than the actual protection given in the tariffs of 1816 and 1854. By 1828 the textile manufacturers were so fairly established that they needed no further protection...