History Takehome Test
...be like without them. 2) If Alexander Hamilton had to assess today’s Federal Government, he would most likely enjoy it because you can still see effects from many of his influences like The Bank of The United States, stocks, political parties, and other things due to his influences (i.e. – funding, assumption, the excise tax, and the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion. 3) If I was an advisor to President Thomas Jefferson when France took control of Louisiana and New Orleans, I would say that we should buy it because then we would not only have control of the Mississippi and New Orleans (again), but we would also have control of lands beyond there so we could not only expand westward, we could also find new resources. Whether these resources were discovered immediately or later on or whether they were food, heat, or anything else, it wouldn’t matter because we would discover them eventually. Not only that, but we would also gain respect from France and be considered more of an equal for accepting their wishes [for us to buy that land]. 4) The saying “profits dull patriotism”, which was used regarding the opposition to the war of 1812 is in ways a fair explanation of antiwar sentiment in 1812 to 1815 and in other ways it is not. The reasons that I say it is a fair explanation is because that the people that wanted war lived in the South and the West, away from where the British would attack. They...