United States Secretary of the Treasury

Alexander Hamilton was an immigrant from the Caribbean, “a top aide to General George Washington” during the Revolutionary War, and the first ever “Secretary of the Treasury under President George Washington.” When he took his position as the Secretary of Treasury, he “inherited a bankrupt nation” with a tremendous war debt and a “shortage of sound currency and bank credit stifled commercial growth.” Hamilton saw the necessity of a solution if the newly formed nation was to prosper. Having…

8. Mini-Pathfinder: I chose Alexander Hamilton as the topic for my pathfinder. The resources included deal with his life, his contributions to America, and his writings. Alexander Hamilton Exhibition site - http://www.alexanderhamiltonexhibition.org The website alexanderhamiltonexhibition.org was created by the New York Historical Society for the Alexander Hamilton Exhibition that ended in 2005. The site is still available and a good source for information on Alexander Hamilton. The site…

Abolitionism in the United States was the movement before and during the American Civil War to end slavery in the United States; it was a movement to end the Atlantic slave trade and set slaves free. At that time, most slaves were Africans, but thousands of Native Americans were also enslaved. In the 18th century, as many as six million Africans were transported to the Americas as slaves, at least a third of them on British ships to North America. Anti-slaveryactivist Harriet Tubman made…

it would be at the expense of states and the people. The federalist party…

of the United States, and a summary of the First Report on Public Credit. Also, aside from the museum, one of the essays written by Hamilton for the Federalist Papers, number 13, proves that Hamilton had a strong belief in federalism. The Federalist Papers greatly support that Hamilton wanted a strong federal government. Hamilton was the creator of the Federalist papers, a collection of 85 essays, all in support of ratifying the Constitution. According to…

In this article, David Cowen speculates on what role, if any, the First Bank of the United States played in the Panic of 1792. He notes that the cause of the crash is highly contested by historians, but analyzes new data that illuminates the bank’s actions that might have resulted in the crash. There is no firm conclusion presented, as he leaves it up to interpretation, but he presents strong arguments in favor of the idea that the bank had changed vital policies in the months prior to the crash…

When Alexander Hamilton, one of the founding fathers, is mentioned, he is immediately associated with his work as the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, his avid support of the Federalists, his aid in the creation of American currency and the national treasury, and his undoubted conviction to uphold his ideals. Within the realm of these topics, controversy abounds, without even considering the nature of his death: he was killed as the result of a duel with Aaron Burr in 1804…

Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Alexander Hamilton is best known as the principal author of the classic work on constitutional government. However, his enduring influence on American matters of state lies equally with his reports to Congress on the financial affairs of the Federal government. Hamilton is chiefly responsible for the design and establishment of Federal institutions, and above all for the financial system which helped consolidate the states into a nation, and…

In recent decades the United States, and the larger world, has faced a new enemy that has required new policies and laws. Terrorism and the rise of violent, non-state actors has forced the world to quickly adapt to new and more violent warfare against actors that do not adhere to the internationally agreed upon laws of armed conflict. Because of the rapid pace that was required to deal with this new threat, actions were taken that do not represent the values of this country and policies were…

a Founding Father of the United States. He was also the first Mayor of New Haven Connecticut. He was in the group of men that drafted the Declaration of Independence along with the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. Along with all of his other accomplishments he was a judge on the Superior court of Connecticut. The well-known “Connecticut Compromise” was the idea of Roger Sherman’s as well, he also was the representative for Connecticut in the United States Senate. Benjamin…