The maintenance of such a system required money, and a high tariff of duties on imports was a necessary concomitant to Internal Improvements.
Internal improvements, canals, and improved roads were not quite the instrument that was needed.
In his inaugural he distinctly adopted as his own the policy ofinternal improvements by the federal government, although he knew how wide and determined had been the opposition to it.
This brought distinctly before the public the great question of internal improvements by the federal government, which Van Buren, Benton, and Jackson afterwards chose as one of the chief battle-grounds for their party.
But Van Buren and his school quickly became doubtful and soon hostile to the federal promotion of internal improvements.
A power to establish turnpikes, with gates and tolls, and to enforce the collection of the tolls by penalties, implies a power to adopt and execute a complete system of internal improvements.
In 1825 Jefferson actually proposed that the Virginia Legislature should pass a set of resolutions pronouncing null and void the whole body of federal laws on the subject of internal improvements.
Tariff, internal improvements, and foreign policy were discussed in the campaign, but the real issue was the manner of selecting the President.
Though the three questions of internal improvements, the tariff, and the use of the public lands led to bitter disputes, they did less to break up the party harmony than the action of the leaders.
The growth of the West and the rise of new states brought up the question of internal improvements at national expense.
He was a strenuous advocate of internal improvements, and happily the condition of the national finances enabled the Government to embark in enterprises of this kind.
Seward retained the political affiliations of his father, who was a Republican and a Bucktail, until the journey on the canal to Auburn opened his eyes to the importance of internal improvements.
It may be fairly said of him that his career made an era in the history of his State, and that in asserting the great principle of internal improvements he blazed the way that guided all future comers.
A scheme of internal improvements by land and water highways was to be devised.
On the other hand, it brought the friends of a low tariff face to face with the problem of internal improvements.
In connection with the land system, Mr. Jefferson favored, and Mr. Gallatin devised, an extensive plan of internal improvements.
Time and experience have verified to a demonstration the public utility of internal improvements.
He was in favor of internal improvements, such as opening roads, clearing streams, building a railroad across Sangamon County, and making the Sangamon River straight and navigable.
We've all been too much absorbed by internal improvements.
One evening they went to a debate in the tavern on the issues of the day, in which Abe won the praise of all for an able presentation of the claim of Internal Improvements.
Not a word was said of Mary in the excitement, about all the folk of the village having assembled to meet and cheer the triumphant Captain of Internal Improvements.
The Committee on Rivers and Harbors represents, of course, the lately-acquired permanency of the policy of internal improvements.
A very different and much larger side of federal predominance is to be seen in the history of the policy of internal improvements.
It will be remembered that very few publicists opposed internal improvements, for instance, on the ground that they were unwise or uncalled for.
The entire experiment was an instructive illustration of the futility of most of the attempts at "internal improvements" fostered by congressional land grants.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "internal improvements" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
