Question

What was the purpose of Henry Clay’s American System? to lower the price of foreign goods imported from overseas to protect American goods from competition with foreign goods to protect Southern goods from competition with Northern goods to raise the price of American goods exported overseas

Answer 1

The main purpose of the American system of Henry Clay is to promote as well as protect the trading industry of America.

The specially developed American system is the program for the overall economic development actually championed in the period following the 1812 war by Henry Clay.

The idea of Clay is that federal government should introduce protective tariffs and also internal improvements.