A key purpose of henry clay’s american system was to:

it was on the rise and doing very well and would continue to do well until the great depression from 1929-1939

a. by accepting the election of president abraham lincoln in 1860 and convincing other southern states to do the same

polisit can also mean a body of citizens. in modern historiography, polis is normally used to indicate the ancient greek city-states, like classical athens and its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state". the body of citizens came to be the most important meaning of the term polis in ancient greece.