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Alexander created the first National Bank, which allowed the government to sell bonds, kind of like government IOU's with interest.  This is how the government pays for things to this day. This is part of a system called Public Credit.

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Hamilton's Report on Manufactures went further than any other report in projecting the future of the United States and its place in the world economy. Hamilton urged congress to promote manufacturing so that the United States could be "independent on foreign nations for military and other essential supplies."

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Hamilton wrote many of The Federalist Papers which were a series of eighty-five essays urging the citizens of New York to ratify the new United States Constitution.

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Hamilton was a Federalist, meaning he thought that states should share power with a strong national government

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During the duel between Hamilton and Burr, Hamilton had the right to shoot first and missed.  Some say he fired in the air, and others say he just missed.  This led to the death of Alexander when he was shot by Aaron Burr

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When Hamilton voted for Jefferson instead of Burr, a feud between the two began, they wrote public opinions mocking one another, which eventually led to their infamous duel

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When the presidential election between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr was tied, he voted for Jefferson despite being enemies with him.

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Even today Hamilton's ideas shape the way our government works today.

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Hamilton wrote two anonymous publications —one of them attributed to John Jay and John Adams, two of the ablest of American propagandists— gave the first solid evidence of Hamilton’s precocity.

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sent him to a preparatory school in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and in the autumn of 1773 he entered King's College in New York.

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Hamilton's father left when he was young and his mother died in a hurricane

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Even after Hamilton left office, he stayed in the public eye through his books, essays, letters, and articles

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Hamilton's life began to go wrong after George Washington resigned from president, he cheated on his wife and the public found out, he was fired from the position of Secretary of Treasury, and his first born died in an unfair duel

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At the age of 22, Hamilton was appointed George Washington's assistant, drafting letters, meeting with diplomats, and delivering orders

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Hamilton wrote 51 out of 85 essays of the Federalist Papers

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Alexander Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury

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“Alexander Hamilton.” BrainPOP, www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/famoushistoricalfigures/alexanderhamilton/.

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Hamilton: An American Musical

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Hamilton talked for six hours at the Constitutional Convention presenting a new form of government or national government

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Hamilton was involved in the Constitution Convention but did not fully agree with the document; despite his disagreements, he promoted the document because he believed it was a vast improvement over the Articles of Confederation. He teamed up with John Jay and James Madison to write the Federalist papers.

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Troubled by personal and political scandals in his later years, Hamilton was shot and killed in one of history’s most infamous duels by one of his fiercest rivals, the then Vice President Aaron Burr, in July 1804.

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He was responsible for creating the First Bank of the United States, and his Report on Manufactures fostered commercial and industrial development in the new nation.

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Alexander Hamilton was born on the island of Nevis where he read books at the library and wrote essays.  The leaders of that island were so impressed with his talent, that at the age of 17 they paid for him to go to college at the mainland

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Alexander Hamilton's beloved first-born son, Philip, was killed in a duel in 1801 while attempting to defend his father's honor against attacks by New York lawyer George Eacker.

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“Biography of Alexander Hamilton.” Ushistory.org, Independence Hall Association, www.ushistory.org/valleyforge/served/hamilton.html.

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DeConde, Alexander. “Alexander Hamilton.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 24 Jan. 2018, www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Hamilton-United-States-statesman.

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DeConde, Alexander. “Alexander Hamilton.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 24 Jan. 2018, www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Hamilton-United-States-statesman.

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Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. Head of Zeus, 2017