MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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Question
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Jefferson helped Hamilton become President of the United States.
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Hamilton helped Jefferson become President of the United States.
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Neither of these
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were lifelong rivals and political enemies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hamilton thus saw Jefferson as sneaky and hypocritical, someone with wild ambition who was very good at masking it. And Jefferson saw Hamilton as a wildly ambitious attack dog who would hammer his way into getting what he wanted.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Compromise of 1790 was a compromise between Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, where Hamilton won the decision for the national government to take over and pay the state debts, and Jefferson and Madison obtained the national capital, the called the District of Columbia, for the South.
Detailed explanation-4: -The economic program instituted by the Treasury secretary triggered Jefferson’s suspicions, but it wasn’t until he learned what Hamilton had preached at the Constitutional Convention that he put together the whole puzzle. He saw as dangerous Hamilton’s push to strengthen the central government and presidency.