Alexander Hamilton

The Federalist party grew out of Hamilton's view of a strong federal government.

Hamilton's policies were most favorable to the wealthy. this way, the rich would be more willing to give money to the government, and then the government could use that money to help the poor. this way, everyone benifitted=)

Hamilton and his wife Elizabeth had 8 children.

The term Standard Sea level gives defined set of calculations and conditions. This is done to give that same values of properties with the base line being sea level.

When George Washington became president, he was told about Alexander Hamilton and called him over. They quickly became friends and war broke against two opinions. King George would make the peasants pay more for taxes meanwhile Alexander H. and George W. won the war for their beleifs.

What was AlexanderHamilton's plan for the adequate support of public credit

Those opposed to Alexander Hamilton's programs were known as the anti-Federalist Party...later the Republican Party, then the Democrat-Republicans.

Hamilton wanted strengthen the US economy by incentivizing the money men to invest in the US Government which allowed for the paying off of our debts and to be respected in Europe with the money lenders to get a lower rate and to buy more time until the economy had a chance to develop some maturity. It worked brilliantly. We were overwhelmed with debt in the 1780s and by 1794 we were getting a premium from our bonds over Britain, France, Netherlands, etc. and America's greatness was funded by the strength of this system and the structure of our government and the respect for our legal system.

southerners opposed Alexander Hamilton's financial plan because it only helped the north and not the south so they got pissed and tried to rebell

No. he simply had ideals that many of the other founders rejected and even despised. Rightly so because many of his ideas we are NOW following and its leading to the implosion of our country. For example, Alexander Hamilton was the first to suggest that a nation could indefinitly borrow from itself and effectively print money out of thin air, never having to repay that money. He said that the government could just keep spending money forever with no consequence. Later, those who started the Fed did so believing the same thing and much later John Maynard Keynes took Hamiltons ideas and made himself famous with them.

Hamilton was also much more in favor of a big government. Actually, his beliefs about money were just one way he tried to justify big government.

So can you see why people who ADAMANTLY believed in a decentralized and democratic system that was as far away from big government as to be, as Franklin put it, "one step away from anarchy" (because anarchy is very bad, but being close to it protects people from each other while providing as much personal freedom as possible) and who also believed in being as frugal as possible might have a few disagreements with such a man?

Is he a traitor to our nation? no. Is he a traitor to the fundamental principles behind the Constitution, yes, but the Constitution protects people with different viewpoints, so its not illegal.

The only way he could be considered a traitor in the legal sense is if you judge him by the standard Senator McCarthy judged people back during the red scare. Had hamilton been alive when McCarthy was, Hamilton most definitly would have been incarcerated....but what McCarthy did was just as unconstitutional as Hamiltons ideas. In effect McCarthy was using big government to arrest people who believed in big government.

Yes

Federalist

James Alexander Hamilton was born in 1788.

The new government should pay off the millions of dollars in depts owed by the confederation government to other countries and to individual American Citizens.

Jefferson and Madison were polar opposites of Hamilton in the financial issues. The result of Jefferson's and Madison's opposition to Hamilton's financial plan was the establishments of the banking system.

Apparently, a number of people challenged Alexander Hamilton to a duel, but the best known was the one with Vice-President Aaron Burr in July 1804. Burr challenged Hamilton because Hamilton refused to apologize for gossip he spread implying Burr made nasty comments about another person, and Burr read about it in the newspaper. After unsuccessfully demanding an apology from Hamilton, the Vice-President finally challenged him to a duel to avenge his honor.

Hamilton fired first, deliberately throwing away his shot (missing Burr); the bullet was later found lodged in a tree limb fourteen feet off the ground. Burr aimed directly at Hamilton and fired. The bullet struck Hamilton in the lower abdomen, ricocheted off his ribs, damaged his internal organs, and severed his spine, immediately paralyzing him from the waist down. Hamilton died of his wounds the next day.

Hamilton was fatally shot by Aaron Burr in a duel.

Contrary to popular belief Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel, not the other way around. Burr thought Hamilton to be the sole detriment to his public career. Without Hamilton, he reasoned, he could achieve greatness.

On July 11, 1804, he shot Hamilton. Although historians today still argue about what actually happened on the ground, it's clear that Burr's shot, which came with such force that it ricocheted in Hamilton's stomach, splintering a vertebrae, proved mortal.

Hamilton died 31 hours later of those injuries, on July 12. Burr was indicted for murder in New Jersey, but the charges were dropped. However Burr would later be charged with treason...but that's another day's story.

There was different views on the constitution. Some wanted to interpret the Constitution loosely and look for as many loopholes as possible. While the other side wanted a strong central government and wanted to stick to exactly what the Constitution said.

The environment that Madison wrote this in needed to explain how the new constitution and republican form of federal government would have greater stability than the previous continental congress. The paper also needed to explain how the system would protect against the competing factions drowning out the rights of minorities and the public good. It also needed to explain how it would halt mob rule. All issues that had posed problems in the self-government of the colonies previous, during and after the revolution of 1776.

Madison sees faction as an unavoidable in a polity of maximum liberty, and consequently seeks to minimize the violence of faction through the system; in other words controlling the effects of faction. Representative government is the process by which Madison seeks to temper this.

For more information visit the Related Link.

Thomas Jefferson believed that the US should remain basically an agrarian nation with little manufacturing. We would trade with European nations for the industrial products we needed. He believed in States' Rights and that the purpose of the federal government was not to involve itself in the daily lives of the citizens, but to defend us from invasion and to insure the protection of the rights of the citizens from any kind of domestic turmoil. Alexander Hamilton favored a strong national government, one that took an active role in the daily affairs of the nation. He foresaw an industrial future for the US and created his Financial Plan with that in mind. He believed the national government should be supreme over state governments.

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.

Yes, Alexander Hamilton was born in Charlestown, Nevis, in the British West Indies on January 11, 1755 or 1757. He and his family moved to St. Croix in 1765. Then in 1772, Hamilton wrote a letter describing a hurricane to his father; the letter, which was subsequently published in the Royal Danish-American Gazette, inspired members of the community to collect funds to send him to college in America. Later that year, he arrived in Boston, and in May of 1782, he became a citizen of the State of New York. Although Hamilton is considered today as a prime example of someone who lived the immigrant's American Dream, his contemporaries viewed his immigrant status in a negative light; they doubted his loyalty to his adopted country.

Because they both had different ideas as to how the United States should develop. Jefferson wanted the US to remain basically an agrarian nation, buying our manufactured goods from Great Britain and other European nations. Hamilton wanted the US to become a leading manufacturing nation with commerce and industry as the main characteristics. Jefferson believed more in representative government than did Hamilton. Hamilton did not trust the citizens to be informed well enough to vote. He had wanted the US to become a sort of constitutional monarchy, with a President chosen, not elected. Jefferson favored the French at the start of the French Revolution while Hamilton looked to Great Britain to become the closest ally to the US. Alexander was angry that Thomas cheated on him with a squirrel.

I hate history

Alexander Hamilton was George Washington's Secretary of Treasury from 1789 to 1795. Albert Gallatin was the Secretary of Treasury under Thomas Jefferson. Secretary Gallatin convinced President Jefferson that they should run their administration based on Hamilton's financial and economic programs.