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Alexander Hamilton, a portrait by William J. Weaver now housed in the U.S. Department of State. In United States history, the Hamiltonian economic program was the set of measures that were proposed by American Founding Father and first Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in four notable reports and implemented by Congress during George Washington's first term.
The history of the United States public debt began with federal government debt incurred during the American Revolutionary War by the first U.S treasurer, Michael Hillegas, after the country's formation in 1776. The United States has continuously experienced fluctuating public debt, except for about a year
The predominant reason that the Second Bank of the United States was chartered was that in the War of 1812, the U.S. experienced severe inflation and had difficulty in financing military operations. Subsequently, the credit and borrowing status of the United States was at its lowest level since its founding.
“The Relation of the United States Treasury to the Money Market.” American Economic Association Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 1, 1908, pp. 199–211. online; D. Kinley, The History, Organization, and Influence of the Independent Treasury of the United States (1893, repr. 1968) and The Independent Treasury of the United States (1910, repr. 1970);
The report analyzed the financial standing of the United States and made recommendations to reorganize the national debt and to establish the public credit. [2] Commissioned by the US House of Representatives on September 21, 1789, the report was presented on January 9, 1790, [3] at the second session of the 1st US Congress. [4]
Tariffs in United States history; Protectionism in the United States; Friedrich List, German-American economist; Import substitution industrialization, a key feature of the American System adopted in much of the Third World during the twentieth century; Lincoln's expansion of the federal government's economic role
Long's plans for the "Share Our Wealth" program attracted much criticism from economists at the time, who stated that Long's plans for redistributing wealth would not result in every American family receiving a grant of $5,000 per year, but rather $400/per year, and that his plans for taxation would cap the average annual income at about $3,000.
The Compromise of 1790 was a compromise among Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, where Hamilton won the decision for the national government to take over and pay the state debts, and Jefferson and Madison obtained the national capital, called the District of Columbia, for the South.