What were the economic consequences to the Embargo Act? What were the steps that led to the war of 1812? Why was the battle of New Orleans both strategically unimportant and psychologically significant for the Americans? What were the Consequences of the War of 1812? What was Henry Clay's American System, and how did it cement the power of the federal government? What was Monroe's forgiven policy under the guidance of John Quincy Adams? What was the significance of the Monroe Doctrine for the American forgiven policy? Why did Thomas Jefferson Consider the Missouri compromise to be "the knell of the Union"? Was the Corrupt Bargan of 1824 really Corrupt?