Chapter 10 Flashcards
States began chartering new
Local banks with little or no regulation and their banknotes flooded in with uncertain value
After the First National bank expired,
The country went tu to financial muddle
Such loose spending practices led initially to a big
Economic boom but were followed by dramatic inflation
Eventually the value of the excess banknotes
Plummeted and the Bubble would burst, causing a sharp recession and then a prolonged depression
Second BUS
Could establish branches throughout the state’s, and it’s banknotes were accepted in payments to the governments . In return for its privileges, the bank could handle the government’s fund without charge, lend the government Up to $5 million upon demand, and pay the government a cash bonus of $1.5 million
Thomas Hart Benton predicted that the currency short western towns
Would be at mercy of a centralized bank in Philly
Calhoun pushed the bank bill because he
Saw it as constitutional because of the right to regulate currency
After the War of 1812 ended, the British flooded the American market with
Low priced goods, leading to a tariff
Tariff of 1816
Intended to protect industries against foreign competition, rather than make money
Why did Calhoun put through the House a bill for internal improvements?
Western development would help his native south by opening up trade relations
Supporters of internal improvements from the national government was from
The west because they needed good roads
Madison
Vetoed the bill. As a result, internal improvements remained fro another hundred years
Prosperity, according to Clay,
Depended on the national government’ assuming an active role in shaping the economy
The American system had
High tariffs, high prices for federal lands, and the profit would be used for internal improvements to the states, and a bank
James Monroe failed to keep up
With new nationalism. He accepted the BUS and the proposed give tariff, but during his tenure there was no extension of economic nationalism
Monroe urged a constitutional amendment to remove
All doubt about federal authority In the field of internal improvements