In 1791 Hamilton convinced Congress to approve taxes on distilled spirits and carriages. Hamilton's principal reason for the tax was that he wanted to pay down the national debt, but he justified the tax "more as a measure of social discipline than as a source of revenue." But most importantly, Hamilton "wanted the tax imposed to advance and secure the power of the new federal government."
as secretary of the treasury he had just assumed the states' debt for the war.
Congress designed the tax so smaller distillers would pay by the gallon, while larger distillers (who could produce in volume) could take advantage of a flat fee. The net result was to affect smaller producers more than larger ones. George Washington, the president at the time, was one such large producer of whiskey. Large producers were assessed a tax of 6 cents per gallon, while small producers were taxed at 9 cents per gallon.
<span>b. Leonardo da Vinci</span>
The Emancipation Proclamation was based around the following phrase:
"All persons held as slaves [in the slave-states] are and shall henceforth be free"
This corresponds to the last option - it immediately (and forever) freed all the slaves (in the other slaves, everyone was free already)
The moment of my life when I was about to graduate in college and I had this one subject where the grade I got prevented me from being a cцm laude graduate. I was lax with that subject, thinking that I will be able to attain a high grade even with minimal effort, and that was where I was wrong, and it cost me something which I cannot bring back.