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media type="youtube" key="tgELv4aNHjQ" height="315" width="420" ** Domestic issues were present during Monroe’s presidency. [|Four states] joined the union while James Monroe was president: Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama, Maine, and Missouri between 1817 and 1821. Also, he was able to obtain the acquisition of Florida. He also had one of the best [|cabinets] in American history. This included John Quincy Adams as the Secretary of State, William H. Crawford as the Secretary of Treasury, John C. Calhoun as the Secretary of War, William Wirt as the Attorney General, and Daniel Tompkins serving as his Vice President. ** ** One of the most important domestic treaties that Monroe signed was the [|Missouri Compromise]. This allowed Missouri to be a slave state and Maine to be a slave-free state at the same time. This gave America a balance between states which allow slaves and ones in which they are outlawed. ** 
 * One of the more famous acts was [|The American System], created by Henry Clay. This economic plan had three major parts to boost the American economy: a tariff on foreign goods, a national bank (previously not renewed by the government after the twenty year plan), and to make national roads and canals. This plan was intended to strengthen and unify the nation. Parts of it were passed into law, including the second national bank and a tariff. Overall, Monroe didn’t have to deal with domestic policies, but had much greater success in foreign policies. **