Alexander Hamilton is famous for many things. Name one.

Why this is the answer

Alexander Hamilton has five accepted answers: first Secretary of the Treasury, one of the writers of the Federalist Papers, helped establish the First Bank of the United States, aide to General George Washington, and member of the Continental Congress. Any one of them is a complete answer. After the Revolutionary War, many people were unhappy with the way the country was governed, and the states were quarreling over trade, taxes and other laws. The USCIS study guide names Hamilton, along with George Washington and James Madison, among the leaders who believed the United States needed a new government. He went to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, and on the signed Constitution he is the only delegate listed for New York. He then turned to winning ratification. Hamilton wrote the first of the Federalist Papers, a general introduction addressed to the people of New York, which opens by pointing to the plain inefficiency of the existing federal government and asks readers to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States. Madison and John Jay wrote the rest of the series with him, all three signing as Publius. When the new government began, Hamilton became the first Secretary of the Treasury. The office still exists as one of the Cabinet-level positions, the group that leads the executive departments and advises the President. The Constitution itself anticipates such officers: Article II lets the President require the written opinion of the principal officer in each executive department. Helping establish the First Bank of the United States is another answer on the list. At the interview, the answers that do not work belong to his colleagues. The third President was Jefferson, who also wrote the Declaration of Independence, and the general of the Continental Army was Washington, so remember Hamilton as the general's aide, not the general. Hamilton and Madison share one answer, the Federalist Papers, which means that if you have studied one of them, you already have an answer for the other.