Think of yourself as a member of Congress in 1791. Tell your constituents how you will vote on Secretary Hamilton's funding, assumption, bank, and manufacturing proposals. Explain why you will vote for or against each proposal
What will be an ideal response?
Those voting for would explain the need to establish and expand public credit, centralize authority, attract the elite to support of the national government, promote economic growth and self-sufficiency, create a pool of investment capital, etc.
Those voting against would explain the unfairness of funding to original holders, the unfairness of assumption to the Southern states, the unconstitutionality of the Bank of the United States, and the favoritism of tariffs and subsidies for manufacturing, etc.
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A) Evangelical Protestants B) absolutist monarchs C) buccaneers D) mercantilists
The mayor of New York City who organized information and political influence to convince the state legislature to construct the Erie Canal was
A) DeWitt Clinton. B) Thurlow Weed. C) Robert Morris. D) Martin Van Buren.
Which of these did physicians attribute to the cause and spread of epidemic diseases in the mid-nineteenth century?
A) Intercontinental travel. B) Gases that arose from rotten vegetables or dead animals. C) Bacteria. D) Sinfulness. E) All of these choices
The Marshall Plan, proposed by Secretary of State George C. Marshall, suggested
What will be an ideal response?