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Explain the basic ideas in Henry Clay's American System. How was this

system better for some sections of the country than for others?

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The centerpiece of Clay's statecraft was an integrated economic program called 'the American System. ' This envisioned a protective tariff, a national bank jointly owned by private stockholders and the federal government, and federal subsidies for transportation projects ('internal improvements').

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