| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The United States was functionally bankrupt, its credit with the money centers in Europe was non-existent, its economy was mostly agrarian, its foreign trade was managed mostly by the British and the engines of economic growth did not exist.It was with this background that our first president, George Washington, recruited his most trusted military aide, Alexander Hamilton, to his cabinet in the po
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