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Hamilton and his wife Elizabeth had 8 children.

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Alexander Hamilton had eight children.

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No, Alexander Hamilton did not own slaves, but he was "complicit in the system," as Hamilton playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda put it. While Hamilton grew up on mostly black Caribbean islands and, especially early in his life, expressed hatred for slavery, he made multiple concessions to his anti-slavery stance as he advanced in his career. He managed slave sales for his wife's family and also accepted the "three-fifths compromise," which counted black people as three-fifths of a person, at the United States Constitutional Convention.

Late in his career, Hamilton did do some good in terms of race. He pushed an emancipation law in New York, which passed in 1799, and as secretary of the U.S. Treasury, he laid out an economic blueprint that was devoid of slavery.

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Basically, the Founding Fathers wanted a new constitution because the government under the Articles of Confederation proved to be unstable and inefficient. The document provided very little structure in terms of a federal government. Each state used their own currency and there was little unity. Finally, with Shay's rebellion in Massachusetts and no standing army to counteract it, the Founding Fathers came to the conclusion that a new government and constitution needed to be drawn up which would give America a stronger federal government while still preserving state's rights. More input from FAQ Farmers: * The Founding Fathers wanted a new constitution because the current government of the Articles of Confederation was not working due to the balance of powers between state and federal governments. The document gave state governments too much power and left the federal government helpless in both defending and caring for American interests. This eventually led to almost no unification of the states. Two parties emerged. The federalists, who lobbied for a strong central government, and the anti-federalists who emphasized state and individual rights. The two parties compromised and worked together to ratify the new Constitution that granted more power to a federal government and granted less power (but still protected) to the states. * After the Shay's Rebellion, the Fouding Fathers realized how weak the Articles of Confederation was. The federal government was powerless to stop the rebellion and Congress had little power. Some weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation included that was no chief executive, Congress had no power to tax citizens directly, no power to draft an army, had no national court system, no power to settle arguments among states, and many more. This led to the Constitutional Convention (started by Alex Hamilton), where the AoC was scrapped and a new constitution was written.

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I don’t know??? I want to think he was but I am not sure.

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The Whiskey Rebellion was a citizen revolt against a 1791 tax on whiskey. The reaction to the 1794 uprising in Pennsylvania demonstrated the determination of the US to enforce Federal laws. The militias of several states, under the personal command of President George Washington, were used to end the insurrection.

The tax on whiskey was bitterly and fiercely opposed by the settlers on the frontier from the day it was passed. Western farmers considered it to be both unfair and discriminatory, since they had traditionally converted their excess grain into liquor. Since the nature of the tax affected those who sold the whiskey, it directly affected many farmers. Many protest meetings were held, and a situation arose which was reminiscent of the opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765, before the American Revolution. Several groups were formed in opposition to the tax, and refused to pay it. Eventually the coercion of officials and private citizens prompted Washington to use military action.

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Hamilton favored a society based on trade and industry, thus his favoring of the merchant class.

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It's Marshal Bell

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Public Credit, Establishing the Bank of America, Creating the US Mint and the coinage of money, and Manufacturing strategies to compete with Europe and to make us independent of their goods.

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This is a very thoughtful question. Hamilton was convinced that if the Constitution wasn't ratified then states would form into confederation of states: New England and NY; the middle states; and the southern states. These confederations would develop their own diplomatic relationships with European countries and that would end up dividing the country. Read "The Federalist" - 85 essays aka "The Federalist Papers". It thoroughly answers these questions in great depth. Hamilton conceived of the project, selected his partners, got the printers, and wrote 51 of the Essays. Madison wrote 29 and John Jay wrote 5. HamiltonRand@gmail.com

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Alexander Hamilton was either 47 or 49 years old when he passed. His birth year is unclear. He died July 12, 1804.

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To direct taxes on the states to support government operations

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Hamilton preferred Federalism, he thought the federal government should have the most power. Hamilton's rival Jefferson, hated federalism and as an anti federalist was a strong supporter of states' rights.

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Actually there were no parties until Jefferson left Washington's administration to actively undermine Hamilton's economic policies which Washington supported to Jefferson's dismay. By default, because of his energy and ideas, he became the leader of the Federalist philosophy and by association perceived a leader of a party. Hamilton abhorred parties or factions as they called it through the 1780's because he said people will want the party to be successful irrespective if it is best for the country.

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He saw it as a test of the new administration's ability to govern.

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Alexander Hamilton played a key role in building the American government by serving on Washington's staff for the revolutionary war from 1777-1781. He was the first Secretary of Treasury and did much to put the federal government on a firm fiscal basis.

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• He was a delegate to the first continental congress.
• He defended the British soldiers at the Boston Massacre because he believed in a fair trial.
• He signed the Declaration of Independence.
• He was a great ambassador to Great Britain. In the Treaty of Paris, he managed to get everything that benefited the United States and not give any territory to France.
• He contributed to the constitution because it was based on his Massachusetts constitution.
• He served as Vice president to George Washington.
• He became the 2nd president of the United States, his presidency is controversial due to the Alien and Seduction Act. It made it so that people can't criticize the government, this made him rather unpopular and lost reelection to Thomas Jefferson.

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In George Washington's first term, Jefferson was Sec. of State and Hamilton was Sec of Treasury. Washington and Hamilton saw things very consistently. Jefferson had a different view of things and went about trying to stop the progress of Hamilton's plans that Washington supported. After a while Jefferson couldn't take it any more, so he resigned from the cabinet. Although he professed that he just wanted to go back to his farm and leave politics, he never did. He encouraged surrogates, like James Madison to fight Hamilton/Washington's plans. Eventually, Jefferson took actions that made it clear that like-minded people needed to band together into a party to stop this implementation of plans that they disagreed with.

Hamilton had to defend his plans; and distortions that were making traction had to be addressed, so it did lead to two philosophical parties of thought. HamiltonRand@gmail.com

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Although this is a subjective question, many would argue that the excise tax was the most controversial part of Hamilton's economic program, for two reasons.

-One being that it sparked the Whiskey Rebellion. No other parts of the plan sparked a formidable rebellion, which in itself, shows that people were not opposed to the other parts as much. By definition, this part was the most controversial to the people at that time.

-The second reason being that the excise tax was the only part of the plan that Thomas Jefferson repealed during his administration. He was vehemently opposed to the other parts of the plan, especially the national bank established by Hamilton, but he left them in place. The annulment of only this part of the plan shows that it was the most widely disliked, and therefore, controversial.