Alexander Hamilton

What political party did Hamilton lead?

Democratic

How did Hamilton feel the new government should be set up?

Hamilton wanted a new national government that had complete political authority. He disliked state governments and believed that they should be eliminated entirely. In fact, Hamilton believed that the perfect union would be one in which there were no states at all. At the same time, however, Hamilton realized that eliminating the states was impossible, at least at the Philadelphia Convention, because there were too many other Americans who favored the rights of the states over a strong national government.

Who supported Alexander Hamilton when he was growing up?

His mother

What do you think of dueling as a way to settle a personal dispute?

I think its good because if the person keeps ruining your ideas, plans or events that you planed for years so that's why I think dueling is good.

What two jobs did Burr not get?

President and Secretary of the Treasury

Why do you think George Washington appointed Hamilton as the first Secretary of the Treasury?

Secretary of the Treasury. President George Washington appointed Hamilton as the first United States Secretary of the Treasury on September 11, 1789. He left office on the last day of January 1795. In 1791, while Secretary, Hamilton was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Why was the presidential election of 1800 an especially hard one?

The presidential election of 1800 was an angry, dirty, crisis-ridden contest. This is not to say that the calm transferal of power from one regime to another is not wrote in passing, offering evidence of a mindset that is difficult to recapture.

Alexander was born in the colony of New York.

True