Clay American System

• Clay's American system


  Plan to benefit the North, South and West (Effect of the War of 1812)
• Clay's American system


  1. Establish a better transportation system

  2. Canals

  3. Roads

  4. Bridges
• Clay's American system


  • Aids (helps) trade
  • Better for national defense
  • Created a second national bank to provide financial support
  • Could use currency
  • Regulate state banks
• Industrial Revolution


  Revolution means to change from what you were doing to a new method
• Neolithic Revolution


  • Move to growing food and producing food predictably
  • Led to cities and large populations
• Industrial Revolution


  • Move from handmade products to machine and factory made products
  • Products became cheaper and there were more of them
• Industrialization in America


  1. Started in Britain in the 1700's

  2. New Technologies reach the U.S.

  3. The North becomes an industrial center because of natural resources
• The North becomes an industrial center because of natural resources like river system (power, transportation), bedrock ground (supports large factories)
• The South remains agrarian
• Transportation Revolution


  1. New Technologies stimulate growth of transportation

  2. Steam power

  3. Roads

  4. Canals

  5. Railroad
• By 1840 the US leads the world with miles of track
• Population Shift


  • Industry in North calls for more workers
  • More social mobility in the North
  • Southerners move into the North
  • Immigrants start arriving to work in factories