Alexander Hamilton: America’s First Treasury Secretary
BRITANNICA BEGINNER BIOS ALEXANDER HAMILTON AMERICA'S FIRST TREASURY SECRETARY SUSANNA KELLER Britannica Educational Publishing IN ASSOCIATION WITH ROSEN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
MEET ALEXANDER HAMILTON The United States government was founded more than 240 years ago by a group of men who worked together but didn’t always agree about what a government should do This group is called the Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton was one of the youngest youngest and brightest of the Founding Fathers Unlike most of the other founders Hamilton was not born in one of the thir teen colonies that broke away from Great Britain to form the United States in 1776 Alexander Hamilton was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States He helped design the nation’s government 4 CHAPTER ONE
MEET ALEXANDER HAMILTON He was born in the West Indies The West Indies are a chain of islands in the Caribbean Caribbean Sea that extend from Florida to South America Hamilton immigrated as a teenager moving first to New Jersey and then to New York to get an education The American Revolution broke out soon after Hamilton arrived He enthusiastically joined the fight to win his new home its freedom from the British After the war Hamilton was Soon after arriving in the colonies Hamilton got caught up in their fight for independence He joined a New York artillery company to fight against the British named the first secretary of the treasury The treasury is the government government department that collects taxes borrows money for the government and deals Vocabulary A person who IMMIGRATED moved to a new country to live there 5
