American System
- new form of federalism
- maintained high land prices
- preserved Bank of the United States
- created high tariffs to support internal improvements (road and canal building)
- intended to create American independence which would lead to economic growth
- granted Missouri's request to enter the Union as a slave state
- admitted Maine as a free state
- established a boundary between free and slave regions across the former Louisiana Territory
- kept the balance between free and slave states
- set a precedent for congressional acquiescence in the expansion of slavery