Question

The first challenge facing the Treasury Department was ___. paying off the national debt paying the President financing a war with Spain building a navy setting up state banks

Answer 1

Right choice: Paying off the national debt.

Step-by-step explanation:

When the Revolutionary War ended, Congress, the federal government of the final war period, was heavily indebted because of the loans it had had to take to finance the war, pay soldiers´ salaries and the functioning of the administration.