THE AMERICAN SYSTEM

WHAT WAS THE AMERICAN SYSTEM?

• Plan to strengthen and unify the government
• There were three parts
• Made internal improvements
• Included protective tariffs
• chartering the Second bank of U.S

THE NORTH

• Manufacture/ Industrialize
• Good transportation
• Many factories
• Cities
• Economic opportunities

THE SOUTH

• Agriculture
• Making cotton
• Providing America with food
• Slavery

THE WEST

• Breadbasket
• Small farmers
• Populated by Germans

WHO BENEFITTED MOST?

• North
• Good transportation
• Many jobs
• Interrnal improvements

WHO LEAST BENEFITTED

• South
• Never liked the American System
• Didnt offer the south much
• Hurt economy

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