He didn't care much about imposed gender roles. He was open minded and only wanted for Scout to be happy and to be a good person. He didn't mind if she behaved like boys did as long as she grew up to be a good person who helps others and is compassionate. This is opposed to the beliefs of her Aunt which believes that Scout should not behave as she is behaving and that she should wear dresses and learn manners like a lady and be more lady-like, as she describes it. Atticus doesn't care about things like this and cares about Scout's upbringing as a person more.
Two main points of Clay's system were the protection of American manufacturers from foreign competition, compromising the congress into forcing internal trade and protection from imports. The second point was to reach a diversified economy, believing the U.S. should be both industrial and agricultural, creating the need to enforce programs with such intentions.
In the late 1820s tensions about the government interfering in the economy and development in such extent that South Carolina threatened to withdraw from the Union because of a tariff, birthing the Nullification Crisis. Eventually Clay's concept of taxes and internal improvements became standard policy in the late 1800s.
There were many factors that led to the rise of political machines in American cities in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. One of the major factors that led to the rise of political machines was the rise of immigrant populations who sought to gain and increase their influence in the political realm and served as a powerful political tool for political machines. Political machines worked to enfranchise these voters through a system of patronage, and bribes and would bring them out on election days to support politicians who paid political bosses or awarded government privileges to. Positive aspects of this system were that it gave some increased level of representation of immigrant populations and worked to enfranchise these new political groups. However, these machines led to a high level of corruption and hurt the meritocracy of government institutions at the time.
