Describe the key features of Henry Clay's "American System." Indicate how these features were designed to produce economic growth
What will be an ideal response?
The protective tariff was designed to promote American industry and create a home market for agricultural products from the South and West.
Federally-funded internal improvements like roads and canals would create a national market and stimulate production in all sections.
A second national bank would stabilize the national currency and provide sound credit. The goal was to promote national economic self-sufficiency.
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a. Vlad III Dracul of Wallachia. b. Philip II. c. Süleyman I “the Magnificent.” d. Charles V.
All of the following statements are true of Martin Luther EXCEPT:
a. He was an Augustinian monk, an ordained priest, and a professor of the New Testament in northeastern Germany. b. He had a strong sense of sin, confessing daily and performing extensive penance. c. He wrote a letter to his archbishop itemizing practices he considered contrary to scripture. d. His written communications to Church officials were usually in vernacular German.
All of the following indexed the rising status of upper-class women in Rome except
a. the banning of prostitution. b. a law prohibiting fathers from marrying their daughters against their will. c. a law allowing women to draw up wills without the consent of their husbands. d. Roman women were not secluded in their homes as upper-class Greek women were. e. Roman women could own property and if divorced, keep their dowry.
Elected Mayor of Lynn on the basis of strong working-class support, George Hood used democratic politics to deflect worker demands for "equal rights" away from a critique of capitalist production as a whole and onto single issues and minor reforms.
a. true b. false