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Henry Clay & American System. nationalism. Nationalism like manifested itself in manufacturing Patriotic Americans took pride in the factories that had recently mushroomed forth, largely as a result of the self-imposed embargoes and the war . hostilities.
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nationalism • Nationalism like manifested itself in manufacturing Patriotic Americans took pride in the factories that had recently mushroomed forth, largely as a result of the self-imposed embargoes and the war.
hostilities • When hostilities ended in 1815, British competitors undertook to recover lost ground.
Prices cutting • They began to dump contents of their bulging warehouses on the United States, often cutting their prices below cost in an effort to strangle the American war-baby factories in the cradle.
Yankee fighters • Failed to crush Yankee fighters on the battle field were now seeking to crush Yankee factories in the marketplace
percents • Roughly twenty to twenty-five percent on the value of dutiable imports.
Henry Clay • Nationalism was further highlighted by a grandiose plan of Henry Clay for developing a profitable home market. • Persistent and eloquent demands by Henry Clay and others transportation struck a responsive chord with the public.
American system • He threw himself behind an elaborate scheme known by 1824 as the American system. • System has three main parts. • Revenues gushing from the tariff would provide funds the third component of the American System-a network of roads and canals.
Better transportation? • Outcry for better transportation rising most nosily in the road poor west was one of the most striking aspects of the nationalism inspired by the war of 1812.
