USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Federalists. In the late 1840s, this group supported internal improvements to foster economic growth.

Detailed explanation-2: -Alexander Hamilton, whose loose interpretation of the Constitution authorized the creation of a national bank, favored internal improvements to facilitate economic growth, but he thought that the Constitution prohibited the federal government from funding internal improvements such as canals.

Detailed explanation-3: -What brought about the economic depression of the late 18302 and the emergence of the Whig party? The economic depression of the early 1830s was primarily caused because of the removal of government deposits.

Detailed explanation-4: -The groups that SUPPORTED the Whig Party were: commercial farmers, planters, merchants, and bankers. In the North they were SUPPORTED by: reformers, evangelical clergymen (especially Presbyterians and Congregationalists), Anti-Masons, and manufactures.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.