According to the people of the West, who should pay for internal improvements? A) private investors B) the government C) corporations D) Native Americans

Option B, the government should pay for internal improvements according to the people of the West.

Explanation:

The American System, a neo-Federalist defensive tax system, the national banks and domestic reforms was the keystone of former rebel Hawk and the President of the Senate Henry Clay. Clay and his allied forces argued that it encouraged economic development and geographical cooperation.

Many of the politicians who fought to develop the American system also were land investors and were often very eager to refill the bank. According to federal law, the banknotes were acknowledged as government land payments so that a land investor could afford to buy money from the bank to purchase acres and acres of land from the new regions.

This conversation quickly poured money into the West, but there were challenges as investors could not repay the lucrative loans.