I think the poetic device being used is imagery, because it is describing what it looks like.
Plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries
Answer:
Power
Distillers
Explanation:
Hamilton knew they needed a federal government with more power—to be able to tax, have a bank, and have a strong executive.
Small-scale distillers believed that Hamilton deliberately designed the tax to ruin them but large distillers recognized the advantage that the excise gave them and they supported it.