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| '''Internal improvements''' is the term used historically in the ] for ] from the end of the ] through much of the 19th century, mainly for the creation of a transportation infrastructure: roads, turnpikes, canals, harbors and navigation improvements.<ref name="Down-Lars">Review by Tom Downey of John Lauritz Larson's '''', University of North Carolina Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8078-4911-8.</ref> This older term carries the connotation of a political movement that called for the exercise of public spirit as well as the search for immediate economic gain. Improving the country's natural advantages by developments in transportation was, in the eyes of ] and many others, a duty incumbent both on governments and on individual citizens.<ref> Carter Goodrich, '''' (Greenwood Press, 1960)</ref> | '''Internal improvements''' is the term used historically in the ] for ] from the end of the ] through much of the 19th century, mainly for the creation of a transportation infrastructure: roads, turnpikes, canals, harbors and navigation improvements.<ref name="Down-Lars">Review by Tom Downey of John Lauritz Larson's '''', University of North Carolina Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8078-4911-8.</ref> This older term carries the connotation of a political movement that called for the exercise of public spirit as well as the search for immediate economic gain. Improving the country's natural advantages by developments in transportation was, in the eyes of ] and many others, a duty incumbent both on governments and on individual citizens.<ref> Carter Goodrich, '''' (Greenwood Press, 1960)</ref> While the need for inland transportation improvements was universally recognized, there were great differences over the questions of how these should be planned, funded, developed and constructed. Also, with various route available, questions of where these improvements should be made, and by whom, the federal government the individual states or their localities, became the basis of political and regional contention. | ||
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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 19th century, mainly for the creation of a transportation infrastructure: roads, turnpikes, canals, harbors and navigation improvements. This older term carries the connotation of a political movement that called for the exercise of public spirit as well as the search for immediate economic gain. Improving the country's natural advantages by developments in transportation was, in the eyes of George Washington and many others, a duty incumbent both on governments and on individual citizens. While the need for inland transportation improvements was universally recognized, there were great differences over the questions of how these should be planned, funded, developed and constructed. Also, with various route available, questions of where these improvements should be made, and by whom, the federal government the individual states or their localities, became the basis of political and regional contention.
References
- Review by Tom Downey of John Lauritz Larson's Internal Improvement: National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States, University of North Carolina Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8078-4911-8.
- Carter Goodrich, Government Promotion of American Canals and Railroads, 1800-1890 (Greenwood Press, 1960)