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| Opened the lands of the Public Domain to settlers for a nominal fee and five years residence. (1862) |
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| It begins with a spate of counter-depression measures. (1933) |
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| Kelo v. City of New London |
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| The US Supreme Court upholds the decades-old practice of utilizing urban redevelopment and eminent domain for economic development purposes when such actions are backed by a redevelopment plan that underwent a full plan development process. (2005) |
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| President Lyndon Johnson declares war on poverty |
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| In a commencement speech at the University of Michigan. Also urges congressional authorization of many remedial programs, and establishment of a cabinet-level Department of Housing and Community Development (1964) |
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| Provided for the rectangular land survey of the Old Northwest. The rectangular survey has been called "the largest single act of national planning in our history and ... the most significant in terms of continuing impact on the body politic" (Daniel Elazar). (1785) |
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| Congress authorizes land grants from the Public Domain to the states. Proceeds from the sale were to be used to found colleges offering instruction in agriculture, engineering, and other practical arts. (1862) |
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| Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States |
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| By John Wesley Powell. Includes a proposed regional plan that would both foster settlement of the arid west and conserve scarce water resources. (1878) |
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| Created fund from sale of public land in the arid states to supply water there through the construction of water storage and irrigation works. (1902) |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority |
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| Created to provide for unified and multipurpose rehabilitation and redevelopment of the Tennessee Valley, America's most famous experiment in river-basin planning. Senator George Norris of Nebraska fathered idea, and David Lilienthal was its most effective implementer. (1933) |
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| Congress passes multibillion dollar law to create interstate highway system linking all state capitals and most cities of 50,000 population or more. (1956) |
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| The Public Work and Economic Development Act |
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| Passes Congress. This act establishes the Economic Development Administration to extend coordinated, multifaceted aid to lagging regions and foster their redevelopment (1965) |
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| The Appalachian Regional Planning Act |
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| Establishes a region comprising all of West Virginia and parts of 12 other states, plus a planning commission with the power to frame plans and allocate resources. (1965) |
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| Enterprise Zone/Empowerment Community (EZ/EC) |
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| Aims tax incentives, wage tax credits, special deductions, and low-interest financing to a limited number of impoverished urban and rural communities to jumpstart their economic and social recovery. (1993) |
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| North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) |
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| U.S., Canada and Mexico agreement begins on January 1, its purpose to foster trade and investment among the three nations by removing or lowering non-tariff as well as tariff barriers. (1994) |
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| Alexander Hamilton argues for protective tariffs for manufacturing industry as a means of promoting industrial development in the young republic. (1791) |
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| In a speech before Congress, Henry Clay proposes a plan to allocate federal funds to promote the development of the national economy by combining tariffs with internal improvements, such as roads, canals and other waterways. (1818) |
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| This artificial waterway connected the northeastern states with the newly settled areas of what was then the West, facilitating the economic development of both regions. (1825) |
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| Terminates in Vandalia, Illinois. Begun in 1811 in Cumberland, Maryland, it helps open the Ohio Valley to settlers. (1839) |
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| The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads |
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| Met at Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10 to complete the first transcontinental railroad. (1869) |
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| Established to classify all Public Domain lands. (1879) |
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| Panama Canal completed and opened to world commerce. |
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| In October ushers in Great Depression and fosters ideas of public planning on a national scale. (1929) |
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| Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
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| Established at the outset of the Great Depression to revive economic activity by extending financial aid to failing financial, industrial, and agricultural institutions. (1932) |
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| The Grande Coulee Dam in Central Washington State |
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| Congress authorizes construction. Finished in 1941, it is the largest concrete structure in the U.S. and the heart of the Columbia Basin Project, a regional plan comparable in its scope to TVA. The project's purposes are irrigation, electric power generation and flood control in the Pacific Northwest. (1935) |
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| Hoover Dam on the Colorado River |
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| Creates and sustains population growth and industrial development in Nevada, California, and Arizona. (1936) |
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| Bretton Woods (New Hampshire) Agreement |
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| The U.S. and allies meet to establish the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank). (1944) |
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| Secretary George C. Marshall uses his Harvard College commencement address to propose the Marshall Plan |
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| For the reconstruction of postwar Europe. (1947) |
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| The St. Lawrence Seaway is completed |
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| This joint U.S.-Canada project created, in effect, a fourth North American seacoast, opening the American heartland to seagoing vessels. (1959) |
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