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Hamilton's significance If George Washington or John Adams were President, it also would have been offered and accepted. The important element in this deal was that Napoleon needed money and the United States had developed the financial credit established by Hamilton that was necessary for the deal.
Others feared the impact of the purchase on the political balance of power between slave and free states. Some, like normally far-sighted Alexander Hamilton, claimed it was unnecessary; he predicted that the vast region west of the Mississippi River might not be inhabited for “centuries to come.”
