Jack Thompson
October 23, 2016
History1010
Essay Assignment 7
Hamilton’s Economic Policies
Alexander Hamilton served as the Secretary of the Treasury during George Washington’s
presidency in the late 1700s. Hamilton pursued several di+erent ways to help boost the
economy of the young United States and give it a founda.on to assert its power and a new
global power in commerce, military and economy. Hamilton’s ideas stemmed from four
di+erent areas in which he thought would help put money into the economy, and they were
