... the government's funds, lend the government money when needed, regulate state banks' lending, issue bank notes, and collect taxes. The Bank's charter had ended in 1811, but in 1816, President Madison rechartered the Bank for twenty years. By the Panic of 1819, when (land) speculative fever pushed people to the brink of bankruptcy and failure, state and local banks also arrived ... ...

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... provide for the wants of his body-(Schlesinger 309). He opposed the growth of cities and industry and even wanted to get rid of them completely. He said once to Madison, "When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there ... ...

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