id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6536 Alexander Hamilton - Wikipedia .html text/html 27745 3124 71 These included theories from Adam Smith,[112] extensive studies on the Bank of England, the blunders of the Bank of North America and his experience in establishing the Bank of New York.[113] He also used American records from James Wilson, Pelatiah Webster, Gouverneur Morris, and from his assistant treasury secretary Tench Coxe.[113] He thought that this plan for a National Bank could help in any sort of financial crisis.[114] Smith resigned in July 1797, as Hamilton scolded him for slowness, and told Wolcott to tax houses instead of land.[182] The eventual program included a Stamp Act like that of the British before the Revolution and other taxes on land, houses, and slaves, calculated at different rates in different states, and requiring difficult and intricate assessment of houses.[183] This provoked resistance in southeastern Pennsylvania, led primarily by men such as John Fries who had marched with Washington against the Whiskey Rebellion.[184] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6536.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6536.txt