Editing Morrill Tariff (section)

===Adoption and amendments===
The tariff took effect one month after it was signed into law. Besides setting tariff rates, the bill altered and restricted the [[Warehousing Act]] of 1846.

The tariff was drafted and passed the House before the Civil War began or was expected, and it was passed by the Senate after seven States had seceded.

At least one author has argued that the first Morrill should not be considered "Civil War" legislation.<ref>Taussig wrote, "It is clear that the Morrill tariff was carried in the House before any serious expectation of war was entertained; and it was accepted by the Senate in the session of 1861 without material change. It therefore forms no part of the financial legislation of the war, which gave rise in time to a series of measures that entirely superseded the Morrill tariff." [https://www.mises.org/etexts/taussig.pdf ''The Tariff History of the United States'']</ref>

In fact, the tariff proved to be too low for the revenue needs of the Civil War and was quickly raised by the Second Morrill Tariff, or Revenue Act of 1861, later that Fall.<ref>Taussig</ref>