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.
Protective Tariffs: The Primary Cause of the Civil War. Although they opposed permanent tariffs, political expedience in spite of sound economics prompted the Founding Fathers to pass the first U.S. tariff act. For 72 years, Northern special interest groups used these protective tariffs to exploit the South for their own benefit.