American System

The term American System can mean one of the following:

  • American system of manufacturing, for a system of manufacturing developed in America.
  • American System (economic plan), for the program of Henry Clay and the Whig Party.
  • American School (economics), for the Hamiltonian American School of which the American System (economic plan) is a part.
  • United States customary units, a system of measurement used in the United States

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or system:

    “Old age begins in the nursery, and before the young American is put into jacket and trowsers, he says, “I want something which I never saw before” and “I wish I was not I.””
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)