The American System
A Success by Henry Clay
What do you get from the American System?
Federal money will be used to build roads, canals, and bridges so you can quickly travel across the country.
A protective tariff will be enacted on imported goods so your businesses can prosper.
The national bank will be strengthened to better support our growing America.
Who supports us?
Federalists are all for the American System because a stronger national bank leads to a stronger central government, and a protective tariff will ensure the safety of all the business of the wealthy federalists.
Almost the entirety of the north loves the American system because the tariff will protect their growing business.
Most immigrants are in favor of the American System because the internal improvements will allow them to settle the west quickly.
Who's against us?
The Democratic Republicans, including Thomas Jefferson, are against us because a stronger national means a stronger central government and because they don't want to use federal money to help out the individual states.
Most of the farmers in the south dislike our lovely American System because the protective tariff will force them to buy the initially more expensive goods that are manufactured right here in America instead of importing goods from Britain.
Everyone should love the American System!
The American System will unify the nation and bring us together as one people. The internal improvements will allow us to settle the west in a timely manner and eventually accomplish Manifest Destiny. The federal money that will be used to help each state and the national bank will make the entire nation stronger by making each individual state better and bring us closer together. With the protective tariff our industries will grow unbelievably fast and we will eventually be able to sustain ourselves so we are free from Europeans! The American System is the right thing to do-it's the American thing to do!