AP U.S. History / Unit 4: Period 4: 1800–1848
4.3 Politics and Regional Interests
Notes
Regions had different economies: the industrial North, the plantation South, the farming West. Henry Clay's American System (tariffs, national bank, internal improvements) aimed to unify them. The Missouri Compromise (1820) balanced slave and free states and drew the 36°30′ line.
Practice
The Missouri Compromise:
1820.
Henry Clay's American System supported:
Economic nationalism.
The South generally opposed high tariffs because:
Agrarian economy.
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