USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In selecting the four members of his first cabinet-Thomas Jefferson as secretary of state, Alexander Hamilton as secretary of treasury, Henry Knox as secretary of war, and Edmund Randolph as attorney general-Washington balanced the two parties evenly.

Detailed explanation-2: -His sympathy for the French Revolution led him into conflict with Alexander Hamilton when Jefferson was Secretary of State in President Washington’s Cabinet.

Detailed explanation-3: -Alexander Hamilton and Washington contributed greatly to the establishment of the United States in the American Revolutionary War, formation of the government, and the first presidential administration.

Detailed explanation-4: -They had worked together amiably and for much of their lives were friends, if not close ones. Both were masters of great Virginia plantations. They served together in the Virginia legislature and in the Continental Congress, Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence and Washington was named Commander-in-Chief.

Detailed explanation-5: -Following the American Revolutionary War and prior to becoming the nation’s third president in 1801, Jefferson was the first United States secretary of state under George Washington and then the nation’s second vice president under John Adams.