What was a result of Henry Clay's American System? It united the North, South, and West economically and politically. So I think it had a positive effect. It has helped the U.S. because it united our people. It hurt the U.S. because we now have arguments on which country is north, or south.
They believed that, by following the Eightfold Noble Path, they would achieve Nirvana, essentially a peaceful state of mind, almost relative to the Christian belief, heaven.
