APUSH Period 4 Review #2

The American System of Henry Clay

• favored strong economic growth and a Second National Bank

• favored lowering tariffs so more goods could be purchased from abroad

• wanted to place a ceiling on the national debt

• wanted to make the United States the military equivalent of Great Britain or France

The concept nullification became an issue during Period 4 when

• South Carolina nullified congressional tariff bills

• Virginia nullified congressional legislation concerning slavery

• Southern representatives to the Electoral College switched their votes in the 1824 election

• South Carolina nullified congressional legislation concerning the removal of Native Americans

The Marbury v. Madison decision

• gave broad judicial power to the state courts

• declared that the Alien and Sedition Acts were constitutional

• established the principle of judicial review

• gave powers to the president that the Republicans of Thomas Jefferson claimed he didn't have

Who authored the American System?

• Clay

• Pinckney

• Monroe

• Madison

What were innovations created?

• airplanes, buses, tunnels

• cars, planes trains

• canals, roads, steamboats, trains

• canals, planes, cars, horses

How did the American System propose to pay for infrastructure improvements?

• tariffs, taxes, and subsidies

• bank, loans, and investments

• government spending

• state responsibility

How was money to be controlled in the American System?

• National Bank

• Loan houses

• States

• Mints

Tariffs, National Bank, infrastructure improvement were all designed to aid in economic growth and expansion in what program designed by Clay?

• Era of Good Feelings

• Better Deal

• Monroe Doctrine

• American System

A person who strongly favors ending slavery

• Abolitionist

• Suffrage

• Revival

• Reform

The right to vote

• Reform

• Suffrage

• Revival

• Liberate