• Internal improvements is the term used historically in the United States for public works from the end of the American Revolution through much of the...
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    fund Department of transportation E-procurement Infrastructure Internal improvements Madaket Ditch, one of the first public works projects in America...
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    rein in risky state and local banks Development of a system of internal improvements (such as roads and canals) which would knit the nation together...
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    administration included his opposition to federal funds in constructing internal improvements, his failure to advocate a substantial increase in the tariff, his...
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    States continued to grow, many Americans advocated a system of internal improvements to help the country develop. Federal assistance for such projects...
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    routes as "common highways and forever free." The need for internal improvements of these internal natural resources was widely recognized at the time. The...
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    fund internal improvements with federal money. He saw both the bank and infrastructure spending as unconstitutional, with internal improvements the responsibility...
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  • 1861–1932). Government investments in infrastructure creating targeted internal improvements (especially in transportation). A national bank with policies that...
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    a state internal improvements plan, but the Whigs took sole credit for the system, and Dudley was called the "father of internal improvements" in the...
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    Noah Noble in 1836 that greatly expanded the state's program of internal improvements. It added $10 million to spending and funded several projects, including...
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    Federal funding for internal improvements, Polk stood strongly against all such bills. Congress, in 1847, passed another internal improvements bill; he pocket...
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    federally-funded internal improvements split the Democratic Party, and a coalition of Democrats and Whigs arranged for the passage of internal improvement bills despite...
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    continued growth and development of the young state, most notably internal improvements, Native American removal, codification of Indiana's laws, improved...
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    created, which Bigger oversaw, to investigate the failure of the internal improvements program. The commission alleged corruption of many of the contractors...
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  • The party supported Clay's American System of nationally financed internal improvements and a protective tariff. After the 1832 election, opponents of Jackson...
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    service in 1831. In Congress Jennings promoted federal spending on internal improvements. Jennings had been a heavy drinker of alcohol for much of his life...
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    grow, many Americans advocated the construction of a system of internal improvements to help the country develop. Federal assistance for such projects...
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    development of the next version, and CloudFlare assigned a developer for the improvement of MozJPEG. In 2019, libjpeg-turbo became the ISO and ITU endorsed reference...
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    Kentucky Insurance Company. He advocated for the construction of internal improvements, which would become a consistent theme throughout his public career...
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    succeeded by Democrat James Buchanan. Pierce vetoed funding for internal improvements, called for a lower tariff, and vigorously enforced the Fugitive...
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    His two terms focused largely on internal improvements, culminating in the passage of the Mammoth Internal Improvement Act, which was viewed at the time...
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  • United States for an internal improvements fund. Proponents of the bill stressed the nearly universally accepted need for improvements and brushed off strict...
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  • support interstate transportation. Internal improvements were supported by the Federalist Party, but improvements in the 1790s and 1800s were limited...
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    Clay's proposed American System, he proposed major investments in internal improvements (involving the construction of roads and canals), and the creation...
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    Constitution, while Clay, Calhoun, and Adams embraced federally funded internal improvements, high tariffs, and the Second Bank of the United States, which was...
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    factories. Growth of the nation's transportation infrastructure with internal improvements and a confluence of technological innovations before the Civil War...
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    an important role in Illinois in promoting and bringing about "internal improvements" (canals, railroads, and other transportation infrastructure). General...
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  • Anti-Masons adopted positions on other issues, most notably support for internal improvements and a protective tariff. Several Anti-Masons, including William...
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  • Case of Internal Improvements," Journal of Economic History, 16 (1956), 449–460. Goodrich, Carter. "National Planning of Internal Improvements," Political...
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  • Enabling Act of 1802 would be the first appropriation by Congress for internal improvements in the country's interior. Ohio was the first state to be created...
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