Alexander Hamilton Research Paper

Alexander Hamilton was born on January 11, 1757 in the British West Indies by James and Rachel Hamilton. The parents Throughout Alexander's childhood, he only lived with his brother and mother in St. Croix. His mother educated both of them until she passed away in 1768. This forced the boys to become orphans and work at a young age. At 12, Alexander became a clerk, allowing him to show how exceptional he was at his job. Alexander was very smart and from all the education his mother taught him, he could read and write. In 1772 Alexander aunts sent him New York that allowed him to pursue his education. When Alexander arrived in America, he started going to school in Elizabethtown New Jersey. However, he started going to school at King's College
Their marriage was very caring and successful producing eight children. By 1784 Hamilton left the military and became a lawyer in New York. At the Convention in 1786, he wrote a paper that was the result of the Constitutional Convention a year later. In 1787 Alexander Hamilton helped write The Federalist essays with James Madison and John Jay and worked towards the ratification of the constitution to create a strong national government. In 1789 he became a member of the first Cabinet of the first President as the first Secretary of Treasury. Since Hamilton was Secretary of Treasury he has to find a way to help the financial problems the United States faced after the Revolution. Hamilton developed his solution in 1789 and called the solution the “Hamilton System”. The Hamilton System proposed that the national government would assume the entire debt of the federal government and the states. All the states are going to be charged the same tax even if that state's debt was paid off. The states that paid off their debt before the Hamilton System was created, were angered because they had to help pay the states that did not pay off their debts. Some of the states that need help paying off their debts included Massachusetts and North Carolina. The states then received the money they needed through the taxes of the debt-free states that were able to help