George Washington had no doubts where he wanted the federal city built— at the Eastern Branch—the Anacostia River, only 15 miles upriver from his own Potomac estate at Mt. Vernon. […]
Selecting the Potomac site as the national capital was important to George Washington because it would make his property investment in Potomac Company more valuable. […]
In his fight to oppose Hamilton, the first thing Jefferson did was to begin assembling allies, and in some cases, smoothing over previous differences between people he thought he could count upon. […]
For Jefferson, Hamilton’s push for manufacturing reduced workers to mere employees, living on wages, while the owners tricked unsuspecting farmers. […]
Jefferson’s admiration for the French Revolution seemed to increase in direct proportion to his distance from it. […]
When Hamilton, the Secretary of the Treasury, proposed establishing a national bank in the U.S., he wasn’t the first one to try. Robert Morris, who had suggested the idea before him, had failed. […]
In one of Congress’s sessions, Hamilton, the secretary of the treasury, suggested that debt should be viewed differently, not as a disease but as a treatable plant. […]
The dependable source of revenue was a welcome consequence of the new Constitution, but it couldn’t solve the U.S. government’s problem with its debts owed to multiple parties. […]
James Madison had an active political career in the U.S. He suggested many reforms to the confederation and was able to successfully lead the way to changes. […]
As president of the state convention, Benjamin Franklin drafted a new constitution for Pennsylvania. Later, he was unhappy to note the faults in the new republican experiments. […]
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