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    envisioned how America could become the greatest country in the future. Hamilton sorted out a couple of brilliant ideas on how America could become a more wealthy country. Unlike his friend colleague Jefferson, Hamilton’s ideas were to come out of the ordinary life and strive for greatness while Jefferson’s ideas encouraged farmers to continue their daily jobs and enjoy their freedom. During the era of competing visions of the future, Hamilton published three reports in which he explained how his brilliant

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    Alexander Hamilton was an important founding father to our country. He set the path for many achievements, such as new fiscal policies, during and after the making of the Constitution. He was a loyal patriot even before the beginning of the Revolutionary War, which he proved through his role with the Zenger trial. When helping with the Constitution and working in the George Washington’s cabinet, Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson suffered from a feud due to their strong opposing beliefs of government

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    In the late 1700’s till early 1800’s, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson were the two of major people in the government. Hamilton was the Secretary of Treasury and Jefferson was the Secretary of State. Hamilton belonged to the Federalist party while Jefferson was a member of the Democratic-republican party. Hamilton wanted to enlarge the power of the government. However, Jefferson’s view was the opposite. Hamilton’s view of the ideal economy, foreign affairs, and constitution played a role

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    April 13, 1743 Albemarle County in the English colony of Virginia was the start of an American historical giant. Thomas Jefferson was born in affluence to his father, Peter Jefferson, a rising young planter in the Virginia colony, and his mother, Jane Randolph, who held a high status within the colony as well. Due to his father’s prosperity Jefferson was afforded the absolute best in the ways of education, starting with private tutors at the age of five, then moving on to learn how to read Greek

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    Hamilton was a Federalist who believed in a strong, central government with a national bank. He also wanted to make alliances with Britain (Davis 86). Of course, as history can tell us, Jefferson, an Antifederalist, or a Republican as they called them back then, favored little federal government control and more say for the small farmers and states

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    Jefferson v. Hamilton What happened in the debate against Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton was when president Washington appointed Thomas Jefferson to be the secretary of state and Alexander Hamilton to be the secretary of treasury. Before this Hamilton and Jefferson did not work together. Hamilton’s and Jefferson’s plans for the United States were very different. Hamilton’s plan for the United States was to establish a national

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    questioned why we have political parties, what’s the contrast between the two? The formation of political parties caused madness between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson, building tension in our country. Although they bear some minor similarities the contrasts between federalist and democratic-republican parties are definite. Alexander Hamilton was the head of the Federalist party. For this party the goal was to have a free republic, and in order to do so they believed in a strong federal

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    Hamilton Vs. Jefferson December 29, 2006 by Ando hamjeff.jpg I had intended to post Part II of the WWI question last night, but got caught up doing movie reviews on Life of Ando. So to slake your ravenous historical thirst in the meantime, here is my assignment from my history class this past week. If you’re really into American history and how the politics of the early Republic shook out, Jefferson vs. Hamilton is a great study. It’s also a little, I guess comforting, to know that as bad as

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    Jefferson vs Hamilton Alexander Hamilton had a very organized plan for the development of the United States government, a federalist that had strong ideas that would help the government achieve a greater purpose. Which required a solid central government with two main points like interest of commerce and industry. Being something that wavered in the air at that time that needed to be corrected to improve the government, so Hamilton figured. Hamilton married into the Schuyler family who was very

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    parties, Federalist and Democratic-Republicans, in America differed in their view of strong federal government vs strong state government. One leader that helped run the Federalist was Alexander Hamilton and Hamilton believed in a strong federal government. Hamilton's plan was to pay off all state debt, pay off all the bonds, and to form a national bank, and taxes. Which leads to why Hamilton believed we should have a strong federal government. The federal government would help keep order among the

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