Alexander Hamilton

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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the whiskey rebellion!

Cause they wanted to have an easy going government.

Federalists

After George Washington finished his presidency, he retired and went to his farm, Mount Vernon. He lived most of the rest of his life as a gentleman farmer, and when the US almost went to war with France in 1798, President Adams made him the highest ranking officer in the US Army (almost 200 years later, Congress officially defined the rank as "General of the Armies", which only he and General John Pershing ever held). The US wound up not going to war with France.

Hamilton finished his time as Secretary of the Treasury and became a political advisor. He helped Federalist candidates run for various offices and helped efforts to defeat Democratic-Republican candidates. He eventually pissed off Vice President Aaron Burr (a Democratic-Republican who Hamilton strongly opposed). Burr challenged Hamilton to a duel, and Hamilton was shot and killed.

Alexander Hamiltion was a firm believer in the "elastic clause" and thought that the Constitution could be bent to the federal government's will, to insure its supremacy. Jefferson wanted to limit the federal government's power and thought that the Constitution was to insure the liberties of the people and not the power of the government, so his interpretation was very scrict.

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American manufactures should be protected from foreign competition

federalists

Basically Hamilton wanted investors to have confidence in the economy. He wanted to bolster national credit, while maintaining some debt to keep investors tied to the American bank. Also he centralized the economy by creating a National Bank. (sorry for the ambiguity, I didn't get much of this stuff when I read Founding Brothers or when we went over it in class) Jeffersonians hated this because they believed it was unconstitutional (didn't explicitly state that Hamilton could create a National Bank in the Constitution). Madison didn't like assumption because his state, VA, didn't have much debt to begin with. Hamilton argued that the Constitution did not explicitly state that he could not do that (principle of elastic clause, loose interpretation of the Constitution rather than a Jeffersonian strict interpretation).

He married a New York woman and spent his adult life in New York .

A lot about him, actually. After the death of his friend John Laurens, Eliza (or Betsey, depending who you're talking to) was the only person he revealed his intimate thoughts to. Ever. It showed that he was always a devoted husband, even though he cheated on her, delightful in his letters, but also his hypersensitivity to criticism and how he seemed to take every comment personally - remember, the man was obsessed with honor. For a long time his letters suggest to her that although he was confident when it came to his intellectual abilities, he wasn't so confident elsewhere (why am I not handsome, he wrote to her in one letter, not referring to his appearance) - it would take him a very long time for him to even slightly overcome the horrors of his childhood.

All in all, Alexander Hamilton's letters to Eliza suggest that he was hypersensitive, devoted, and in his last years, shadowed by grief. He was certainly lucid, but still fell prey to huge failures of judgement.

he argues thatb napoleon was right when he said "Women are just machines for producing babies.

loose construction

Because he helped Washington be sucesssful in his presidency

The British

Andrew Jackson.

Yes. Alexander Hamilton wrote about half of the Federalist Papers, a series of articles attempting to convince people to vote for ratification of the US Constitution.

Alexander Hamilton Stephens has written:

'The great speech of Hon. A.H. Stephens, delivered before the Georgia Legislature, on Wednesday night, March 16th, 1864' -- subject(s): Politics and government, Currency question, Draft, Habeas corpus

'Message of the President h microform' -- subject(s): History, Peace, United States Civil War, 1861-1865

'The assertions of a secessionist' -- subject(s): Secession

'...T he assertions of a secessionist' -- subject(s): Secession.

'An address, delivered at Crawfordville' -- subject(s): Politics and government

'Speech of the Hon. A.H. Stephens, of Georgia' -- subject(s): Extension to the territories, Slavery, Speeches in Congress, United States

'Constitutional View of the Late War Between States'

'Speech for the Union' -- subject(s): Politics and government, Secession

'The great speech of Hon. A. H. Stepehns, delivered before the Georgia legislature, on Wednesday night, March 16th, 1864, to which is added extracts from Gov. Brown's message to the Georgia legislature'

'The Hampton Roads Conference' -- subject(s): Hampton Roads Peace Conference (1865), History, Peace, United States Civil War, 1861-1865

'Prophecy and fulfillment' -- subject(s): Politics and government, Secession.

'Alexander H. Stephens on the study of the law' -- subject(s): Law, Study and teaching

'A compendium of the history of the United States from the earliest settlements to 1872' -- subject(s): History

'Texas and New Mexico' -- subject(s): Boundaries

'A constitutional view of the late war between the states' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Causes, Constitutional history, Dummies (Bookselling), History, Nullification, Nullification (States' rights), Politics and government, Secession, Specimens, United States, United States Civil War, 1861-1865

'Speech of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, on the presidential election of 1856; the compromise of 1850; and the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska bill, United States

Hamilton thought that it would give the states a strong interest in the success of the national government.

The Whiskey Rebellion

Hamilton was from the Caribbean and then went to NY

Because the south felt left out. So Hamilton moved it down to Washington DC

It lead to Thomas Jefferson asking to resign from President Washington's cabinet on December 31, 1793 due to Washington continually accepting Hamilton's program and positions over Jefferson's.