Question

Which was NOT a main provision of Henry Clay's American System?

• A. institution of tariffs
• B. disassembling the national bank
• C. improvements to the U.S. infrastructure
• D. encouraging expansion of American small business and industry
• E. limiting British imports into the United States

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

disassembling the national bank

A plan to strengthen and unify the nation, the American System was advanced by the Whig Party and a number of leading politicians including Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun and John Quincy Adams. The System was a new form of federalism. Disassembling the national bank was not a main provision of American System.