• 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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  • 1932–1970). Government investments in infrastructure creating targeted internal improvements (especially in transportation). A national bank with policies that...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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