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What are Hamiltonians?
Hamiltonians were people who followed and supported the policies that Alexander Hamilton espoused on the fiscal affairs of the new union. Hamilton wanted a strong federal government relative to the states. Most importantly, though, Hamilton wanted the federal government to assume the debts that the various states had incurred in paying for the Revolutionary War. Some states had paid down much of their debts themselves and did not want the federal government to assume them. If it did, it would spread the cost of repayment of the entire debt among all of the states. This would have the effect of making some states pay for other states' debts. Hamilton had other fiscal ideas like having a national bank, which many states and people opposed. As it turned out, Hamilton's followers were diametrically opposed by Jefferson and Madison, sometimes referred to as Jeffersonians or Republicans.
What type of government did hamilton want?
Alexander Hamilton was regarded as a founding father of the United States. Hamilton and his group supported a Strong Central Government
What convinced the southerners to agree to help pay the national debt in the late 1790s?
The action that led the Southerners to compromise on the national debt was that they had to pay a lot of money to the northern states to make a deal they wanted to move the capital to the southern part of the United States which is now WashingtonD.C.(The 1st president George Washington's capitol was in New York instead of D.C.)
Why did land poor states want western lands ceded to the central government?
partly out of their fear of western states having more power; land-rich states would pay of their war debts and the day to day costs of state government with the income from the sale of their wetsern lands
Why was the South against the idea of the government paying state debts?
They did not want taxes to increase.
