Students write an editorial piece which takes a position supporting or opposing the free trade policy during the 1790s. After identifying barriers to trade in the 1790s they analyze how their position on the free trade would fit into...

The strategy behind the Mellon Plan, introduced by the Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon, was to lower taxes to free up money that could be then be invested in business to create jobs and improve the economy ensuring financial...

Roger B. Taney was Presiden Jackson's Secretary of Treasury.-E. Benjamin Andrews, 1895

Salmon Portland Chase, Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War.-E. Benjamin Andrews 1895

Chase was Secretary of the Treasury under President Lincoln and became Chief Justice of the United States.

Salmon Portland Chase was an American politician and jurist in the Civil War era who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and Governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as Chief Justice of the United...