Hamilton Vs Thomas Jefferson Essay

In post Revolutionary War America was a land full of hope. This was due almost entirely to two things: the Constitution, and their new found freedom from the English monarch. With the end of the suppression of the monarch the people of America were finally able to think for themselves. This, however, lead to many issues. With this freedom everybody had their own ideas of what is best for America and what actions needed to be taken to allow America to prosper. These different viewpoints led to many conflicts, mostly political, but including a civil war. The state of affairs of America were not good immediately after the revolution, as is the case with many new found countries. Lucky their was one man to whom the vast majority of America’s good

He was seen as a war hero for his leadership in the Battle of Bunker Hill and the crossing of the Delaware River and thus unanimously voted into office. During his presidency, though, he constantly had two people whispering in his ear trying to influence his final decisions. These people were known as Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. Two very powerful leaders in their own right and both very opinionated. Jefferson always had a dream to expand west across America in order to tap into the natural resources that were out there and he even had hopes in finding resources still unknown to them, after all they still were in the New World. Jefferson also wanted to keep out of the foreign affairs going on at the time in Europe, mainly the French Revolution, and focus on stabilizing the economy and affairs within the U.S first. Jefferson wanted the government to help the people financially but opposed taxes and metaling in the everyday life of Americans’. Hamilton on the other hand wanted to be aggressive. He wanted to be able to control the economy so that the government may have a strong global presence financially and thus politically. He also was known as being for a strong centralized government where most of the power lies with the upper branches of the government and less with the