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  title info:
    title: "To the public prosperity"
    sub title: the U.S. Army and the market revolution, 1815-1844
  name:
    name part: Wettemann, Robert Paul.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: v, 320 leaves ; 28 cm.
  abstract: The end of the War of 1812 spawned a resurgence of American nationalism in the United States, as well as initiated a debate over the best way for the federal government to promote economic growth and development. On 30 April 1824, the U.S. Army was placed between the forces of privilege and equality, as President James Monroe signed the General Survey Act, authorizing the employment of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on surveys for those roads and canals the president deemed nationally important, from either a commercial or military point of view. As a consequence of changes at the United States Military Academy enacted during John C. Calhoun's tenure as secretary of war, recently-commissioned army officers not only received a free education, but held a virtual monopoly over engineering expertise at a time when demand for such knowledge was high. President John Quincy Adams's latitudinarian definition of national internal improvements and the liberal terms of employment granted to army officers for such work earned West Point the reputation of not only being the source of an aristocratic, privileged officer corps, but also being a prop for Henry Clay's American System, with these officers extending federal patronage to those best able to secure it from the national government. In a series of attacks that began with Jackson's Maysville Road Veto and continued with presidential orders limiting military employment on internal improvements, the repeal of the Survey Act in 1838, the prohibition of army officers from working for private companies, and a statute requiring West Point-trained officers to serve four years in the U.S. Army, Jacksonian Democrats launched a campaign to end the extension of federal privilege. By restricting military assistance to projects more readily defined as national in importance and limiting the opportunities presented to army officers after receipt of their commission, Jackson and his successor, Martin Van Buren, ensured that all American…
  note: by Robert Paul Wettemann, Jr.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: History".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 2001.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 295-319).
  subject:
    topic: Major history
  identifier: 30-11818 UMI
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    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 020228
    record change date: 20190325103106.0
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