How Did Hamilton Want America

Hamilton wanted the country to be mercantile which means that he believed that we should be deeply involved in world trade. He wanted the US to be a manufacturing powerhouse. He even invested in a plan to make Patterson New Jersey a manufacturing hub which ultimately failed.
To make a strong manufacturing giant, he needed a strong government that could build infrastructure and protect patents. He was supporting a strong national government since he wrote so many of the Federalist Papers. Hamilton also envisioned an America that was governed primarily by the elite. His party, the Federalist Party would be the one of the rich, the able and well-born. Hamilton wanted affiliations with Great Britain due to his passion for elitism and trade. On the other hand, Jefferson wanted an American that was predominantly agrarian, with most people being small scale subsistence level farmers. Maybe they would produce a little surplus for local markets but not for international consumers. There would be no international trade and he didn’t want manufacturing either. This small scale local economy could best be served by a small scale local government. Jefferson was a big fan of the French since they fought with us in the war
If the nation had to be taken seriously, it had to pay of its debts most of which had come from war. Create a national debt; Hamilton wanted to create new interest bearing bonds hoping to give the rich people a stake in our nations success. Create a bank of the United States; This bank would be private and it would turn a profit for its shareholders but it would hold public funds and issue notes that would circulate as currency. A whiskey Tax; Americans liked to drinks and a way to raise money was to set an excise tax on whisky which might reduce drinking or cause people to switch to beer. This would hurt small farmers. Encourage domestic industrial manufacturing by imposing a