Core Components
Key Figures
Historical impacts
Legislation and policies
sectional impacts
100

This policy raised the price of foreign goods to protect american industries 

What is a protective tariff 

100

This person created the american system 

Henry Clay 

100

The american system helped encourage the growth of this secotr of the national economy 

What is manufacturing/ industry 

100

This 1816 law was the first protective tariff passed by congress 

what is the tariff of 1816 

100

This region supported tariffs because it had many factors 

What is the North 

200

this institution helped stablilize the U.S economy and provide a national currency

The National Bank 

200

This president supported the American system 

John Quincey Adams 

200

the system improved transportation, making it easier to do this across regions

what is trade ( or commerce) 

200

this institution, chartered in 1816

what is the second national bank 

200

This region opposed tariffs because it relied on imported goods and exports 

What is the south 

300
This part of the American systen involved building roads, canals, and other infrastructure

What are internal improvements 

300

This South Carolina politician first supported bu later opposed high tariffs 

who is john C.C calhoun 

300

Disagreements over tariffs contributed to rising tension between these two reigions of the U.S 

What are the North and South 

300

This famous road, funded by the federal government, connected the East to the West

What is the Cumberland Road

300

This region strongly supported internal improvements to help transport crops

What is the west 

400

This goal of the American system aimed to make the U.S economy aimed to make the U.S exonomically independent from foreign nations 

What is economic self sufficiency 

400

This president strongly opposed the national bank and vetoed its recharter

Andrew Jackson 

400

This concept refers to when states refuse to abide by or enforce federal laws

what is state nullification 

400

This nickname was given to the 1828 tariff by the south because of how bad it was for their economy

What is the Tariff of Abominations

400

Southerners feared tariffs would benefit this reion at their expense

What is the North

500

was it strict or loose interperated 

what is loose 

500

This political party supported Henry Clay’s American System in the 1830’s 

What is the Whig Party 
500

some historians argue the american system contributed to this major 19- century conflict 

what is the civil war 

500

This crisis emerged when South Carolina refused to recongnize the 1828 tariffs 

What is the nullification crisis 

500

This region supported the American systen because it connected them to the rest of the nation with roads and railways 

what is the west