Related Essays

  • Alexander Hamilton's Economic Problems

    As our first Secretary of Treasury, Alexander Hamilton conducted a financial plan to help our nation’s economic problems. He proposed three steps to improve ...

  • To What Extent Did Alexander Hamilton Plan

    Alexander Hamilton's plan for the nation's debts were to have the government take all the debts of the government and states by being loaned more money at lo...

  • Hamilton's Financial Plan Essay

    In the beginning, Hamilton 's major goal was to have the national government pay interest on all of the bonds and assume all state debt left over from the Re...

  • Shay's Rebellion Economy

    The rebellion showed the weakness of the Articles and the necessity for change. The rebellion was an effect of the nation’s war debt, and the effect of the r...

  • Biography Of George Washington

    Hamilton had to take on a burden of all the states debt left unpaid after the Revolutionary war. Hamilton had to pay off new domestic through private investo...

  • Gordon Wood Novel Name Analysis

    The Revolutionary War is one intently studied and analyzed. In Gordon Wood’s Novel, Novel Name, Wood shares his analysis of the war and lets the reader ponde...

  • The Whiskey Rebellion In The American Journey By George Washington

    “Washington knew the acts of the new government would be the first of everything, in our situation.” (A letter to James Madison from Washington, The American...

  • What Is Alexander Hamilton's Financial Plan

    Alexander Hamilton was an immigrant from the Caribbean, “a top aide to General George Washington” during the Revolutionary War, and the first ever “Secretary...

  • How Did Alexander Hamilton's Three Part Plan

    Alexander Hamilton once said, “When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.” Hamilton, an orphan immigrant, wrote his w...

  • Hamilton's Rhetorical Analysis

    Chernow starts Hamilton's story in the Caribbean, indicating how this fatherless child, conceived in 1755 and orphaned at age thirteen, stepped toward turnin...

  • Shuffle
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Alphabetize
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Front First
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Both Sides
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Read
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
Reading...
Front

Card Range To Study

through

image

Play button

image

Play button

image

Progress

1/13

Click to flip

Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;

Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;

H to show hint;

A reads text to speech;

13 Cards in this Set

  • Front
  • Back
Washington set many precedents. What is a precedent?
Acts or decisions made for the first time that sets and example for others to follow
Who was Secretary of State?
Thomas Jefferson
Who was Secretary of Treasury?
Alexander Hamilton
Who was Secretary of War?
Henry Knox
Who was Attorney General?
Edmund Randolph
What set up federal court system?
Judiciary Act (law passed by Congress)
Who was the Chief Justice of Supreme Court?
John Jay
What were used to finance Revolutionary War?
Bonds
What was Hamilton's Plan?
To buy back all outstanding bonds with new bonds and then repay all state debts from war
Was Hamilton's Plan a success?
No
Who led the Opposition to Hamilton's Plan?
Madison and Jefferson
What would Hamilton's Plan do to the rich?
Would reward rich speculators unfairly and poor people would suffer
Did Hamilton care about the poor?
No