Teri Kanefield
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Series
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor. He envisioned something else: a multi-racial, urbanized, capitalistic America with a strong central government. He believed that such an America would be a land of opportunity for the poor and the newcomers. But Hamilton's vision put him at odds with his archrivals who envisioned a pastoral America of small towns, where governments were local, states would...