The Tariff of 1792 was the third of Alexander Hamilton's

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s in the

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(first was the

Hamilton tariff The Tariff Act of 1789 was the first major piece of legislation passed in the United States after the ratification of the United States Constitution and it had two purposes. It was to protect manufacturing industries developing in the nation an ...

of 1789, second was the Tariff of 1790). Hamilton had persuaded the

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to raise duties slightly in 1790, and he persuaded them to raise rates again in 1792, although still not to his satisfaction.

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was one of the fulfillments of Hamilton's

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1792 Events January–March * January 9 – The Treaty of Jassy ends the Russian Empire's war with the Ottoman Empire over Crimea. * February 18 – Thomas Holcroft produces the comedy '' The Road to Ruin'' in London. * February ...

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