CLEP U.S. History I 040: Hamilton’s Financial Program
U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 8 | Lesson 8.2 Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton treated public credit as a foundation of national power. The Confederation government had accumulated debts but lacked reliable taxing authority. Hamilton proposed that the federal government fund its obligations at face value and assume remaining state Revolutionary War debts. […]
CLEP U.S. History I 039: Launching the Federal Government and the Bill of Rights
U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 8 | Lesson 8.1 The first Congress and President George Washington had to make the new framework govern. Congress created the Departments of State, Treasury, and War and provided for an attorney general. A central practical question concerned removal: could the president dismiss executive officers without Senate approval? Congress […]
