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The credit of the U.S. was solidly established at home and abroad, and Hamilton was successful in signing up many of the bondholders in his new Federalist Party. Good credit allowed Thomas Jefferson 's Treasury Secretary, Albert Gallatin , to borrow in Europe to finance the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, and to borrow to finance the War of 1812 .
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 key provision in Hamilton's fiscal reform was termed "assumption" and called for the 13 states to consolidate their outstanding debt of $25 million [68] and to transfer it to the federal government for servicing under a general funding plan. [69] Hamilton's chief objectives were both economic and political.
Hamilton's success in advancing his fiscal and financial plans [5] moved Madison and Jefferson towards establishing the political foundations for a two-party system. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Based on a New York - Virginia alliance, [ 27 ] the Democratic-Republican Party would defeat the Federalist Party in the " Revolution of 1800 ."
Debt Assumption, or simply assumption, was a US financial policy executed under the Funding Act of 1790.The Washington administration pursued the policy, under Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton's leadership, to assume the outstanding debt of states that had not yet repaid their American Revolutionary War bonds and a scrip.
The American System was an economic plan that played an important role in American policy during the first half of the 19th century, rooted in the "American School" ideas of Alexander Hamilton. [1] A plan to strengthen and unify the nation, the American System was advanced by the Whig Party and a number of leading politicians including Henry ...
Alexander Hamilton on the $10 Bill. In United States history, the Report on a Plan for the Further Support of Public Credit is the "valedictory" report issued to the US Congress on January 16, 1795 by the first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton.
Hamilton's success in advancing his fiscal and financial schemes [5] moved Madison and Jefferson towards establishing the political foundations for a two-party system. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Based on a New York-Virginia alliance, [ 27 ] their Democratic-Republican Party would defeat the Federalists in the ”Revolution of 1800” .