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:
“Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this nation. This difficult effort will be the “moral equivalent of war,” except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“There are obvious places in which government can narrow the chasm between haves and have-nots. One is the public schools, which have been seen as the great leveler, the authentic melting pot. That, today, is nonsense. In his scathing study of the nation’s public school system entitled “Savage Inequalities,” Jonathan Kozol made manifest the truth: that we have a system that discriminates against the poor in everything from class size to curriculum.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)