The RTL English Curriculum: Kids 3 to 18 Years Old

Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was an American statesman, politician, legal scholar, military commander, lawyer, banker, and economist. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was an influential interpreter and supporter of the U.S. Constitution, as without difficulty as the founder of the nation's financial system, the Federalist Party, the United States Coast Guard, and the New York Post newspaper. As the first secretary of the treasury, Hamilton was the main author of the economic policies of George Washington's administration. He took the help in the Federal government's funding of the states' debts, as well as establishing the nation's first two de facto central banks, the Bank of North America and the First Bank of the United States, a system of tariffs, and friendly trade relations in the same way as Britain. His vision included a mighty central government led by a operational executive branch, a strong commercial economy, government-controlled banks, support for manufacturing, and a mighty military.

Hamilton was born out of wedlock in Charlestown, Nevis. He was orphaned as a child and taken in by a prosperous merchant. When he reached his teens, he was sent to New York to pursue his education. He took an in advance role in the militia as the American Revolutionary War began. In 1777, he became a senior aide to General Washington in executive the additional Continental Army. After the war, he was elected as a representative from New York to the Congress of the Confederation. He resigned to practice function and founded the Bank of New York in the past entering politics. Hamilton was a leader in seeking to replace the weak confederal government below the Articles of Confederation; he led the Annapolis Convention of 1786, which spurred Congress to call a Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. He helped ratify the Constitution by writing 51 of the 85 installments of The Federalist Papers, which are nevertheless used as one of the most important references for Constitutional interpretation.

Hamilton led the Treasury Department as a trusted advocate of President Washington's first Cabinet. Hamilton successfully argued that the implied powers of the Constitution provided the authenticated authority to fund the national debt, to consent states' debts, and to create the government-backed Bank of the United States (the First Bank of the United States). These programs were funded primarily by a tariff upon imports, and highly developed by a controversial whiskey tax. He opposed kind relations behind the French revolutionaries. Hamilton's views became the basis for the Federalist Party, which was touching the Democratic-Republican Party led by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In 1795, he returned to the practice of conduct yourself in New York. He called for mobilization adjoining the French First Republic in 1798–99 under President John Adams, and became Commanding General of the U.S. Army, which he reconstituted, modernized, and readied for war. The army did not look combat in the Quasi-War, and Hamilton was annoyed by Adams' diplomatic entrйe to the crisis when France. His antagonist to Adams' re-election helped cause the Federalist party exterminate in 1800. Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied for the supervision in the electoral college, and Hamilton helped to crush Burr, whom he found unprincipled, and to elect Jefferson despite philosophical differences.

Hamilton continued his true and business undertakings in New York City, and was alert in ending the legality of the international slave trade. Vice President Burr ran for official of New York State in 1804, and Hamilton campaigned neighboring him as unworthy. Taking offense, Burr challenged him to a duel on July 11, 1804, in which Burr shot and mortally wronged Hamilton, who died the subsequent to day. Hamilton is generally regarded as an astute and intellectually brilliant politician and financier, if often impetuous. His ideas are qualified with laying the commencement for American supervision and finance.