Alexander Hamilton Summary

Superior Essays
Alexander Hamilton - An overall summary of Alexander’s life and how he overcame many struggles throughout his life, leading up to his voyage to New York in search of education.

Aaron Burr, Sir - As he is attending college, Alexander hears about a man named Aaron Burr, a scholar known for graduating early among his class. Alexander learns about Aaron Burr’s success and seeks an accelerated course of study, so he can graduate within 2 years rather than 4 and join the revolution. In 1776, after graduating from King’s College, Alexander seeks out and meets Aaron Burr. He asks Burr how he managed to leave so soon and Burr reveals he is an orphan, and it was his parents dying wish before they passed. Hamilton exclaims that he wished there was a
…show more content…
Angelica seeks to find someone smart and wealthy, as her job is to find a suitable husband.

Farmer Refuted - Alexander Hamilton debates with Samuel Seabury, a Tory who supported the British side and did not condone the actions of the rebels. Samuel Seabury finds them childish in trying to resolve a dispute with a war. Hamilton argues that chaos and bloodshed will worsen without the war. Burr tells hamilton that he needn’t be so outward with his opinions, and hamilton says he’d rather choose and defend a side than stay neutral.
You’ll Be Back - King George says that the US can’t leave after all they have been through together. He believes that without Britain's support, the US will collapse and their independence will mean nothing
…show more content…
Angelica makes his way to him and introduces herself. After some banter, she leads him over to Eliza and introduces them to each other, and they instantly hit it off. One week later, they begin exchanging letters of affection and their love only grows stronger. Two weeks later, Alexander visits her and her family to ask for her father’s blessing. He accepts and they are to be wed. The Schuyler family brings out a softer side of Alex. He promises that regardless of scarce belongings and financial credit, he has his love and intelligence to offer

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    The duel on the morning of July 11, 1804 between Alexander Hamilton, an honorary, willful, and popular individual in the Federalist party, and his polar opposite, Aaron Burr, the natural aristocrat and second in command of the United States, introduces itself as one of the most captivating and mysterious manifestations in American history. Coming from two completely different backgrounds, Burr and Hamilton allegedly 1met at Weehawken, to settle their disputes in an honorable, yet illegal way. The shots fired resulted in a fatally wounded Hamilton, due to the ricocheting of Burr’s bullet on his ribs and its final stop in Hamilton’s spine. He died the next day surrounded by his family. Burr was not wounded, for Hamilton’s shot went astray and…

    • 499 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Legacy: The Seed in a Garden “There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.” (Hamilton). Known as a bastard orphan, Hamilton was born and raised on an island named Nevis in the British West Indies on January 11, 1757. With a mother who died, father who vanished, and a cousin who had committed suicide, Hamilton was left alone. At the age of 14, he started working for a trading charter which imported and exported goods to and from America.…

    • 1250 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Alexander Hamilton once said, “When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.” Hamilton, an orphan immigrant, wrote his way out of poverty and into the nation’s spotlight. Appointed by George Washington to be the first Secretary of Treasury, Hamilton recognized no qualms or boundaries when it came to fighting for what he believed was right. Although faced with an impossible economic situation, Alexander Hamilton utilized his passion, relentlessness, and rigor, to lay the bedrock for a strong national economy with a three-part plan. After the Revolutionary War and a failed government under the Articles of Confederation, the Unites States was given a fresh start for a strong and centralized government.…

    • 976 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Dred Scott Decision Essay

    • 991 Words
    • 4 Pages

    1. The Dred Scott decision was a famous ruling in history of the courts. Scott had claimed that he was a resident on free land so that had made him free. Others thought different from Scott, so he sued for his freedom and he won. The decision was in effect when it had been declared unconstitutional by the Republican platform of restricting slavery’s expansion.…

    • 991 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Throughout time many people have impacted our history. These people have been documented in history for the ways they have changed it. They have either impacted history in good ways, bad ways, or even both ways. Aaron Burr was a man who impacted history in both, good and bad ways. Aaron Burr’s life was filled with ups and downs starting from his early life, his military service, his time in politics, his duel with Alexander Hamilton, and even in his marriages.…

    • 1554 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government,” said Alexander Hamilton. After the Constitution was written, the people were trying to decide on how the government should be run and based upon. There were two political parties, Jeffersonians and Hamiltonians. The Jeffersonians were Democratic-Republican and the Hamiltonians were the Federalists. Although Jefferson had amazing views, I agree with Hamilton’s on the structure of government, who should govern the nation, and what the economics were going to be based on.…

    • 460 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In “The Hamiltonian Miracle,” John Steele Gordon argues that Alexander Hamilton was an economic genius as his impressive policies for funding the newly formed federal government and establishing a central bank laid the foundation for America’s national economy. Gordon, a specialist in business and financial history and a contributing editor to American Heritage, has authored several books as well as published many articles that are featured in well-known magazines and newspapers. Gordon claims that Hamilton’s foresight, brilliant policies, and knowledge of public finance significantly helped shape the American economy. In fact, Hamilton’s expertise and intelligence helped save America from financial ruin. Therefore, Gordon glorifies Hamilton’s…

    • 1167 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the eleven years before the Constitution was created, the Founding Fathers learned that they needed a strong national government, where a handful of people held all the power and did what they thought was best for the people, justly ruling with total control. Before the Constitution, the national Congress “did not have the powers to levy and collect taxes, or regulate trade and commerce between the states” (Text, 54). This meant that the government had no source for the money it needed and no way of controlling the actions of the people. Alexander Hamilton believed that “the only way to fix the growing problems of the new nation was to implement a strong national government designed to protect property and civil liberties from the state…

    • 349 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Alexander Hamilton, one the founding fathers and the first secretary of the treasury was born in the West Indies and traveled to the colonies as a teenager. His mother Rachel Faucette, died when Alexander was just eleven years old from a fever they both had. As for his father, James Hamilton left when Alexander was young. After the death of his mother, his hometown worked together to raise funds for him to get the colonies, starting with his former boss, Nicholas Cruger, who was sending him to America for an education.…

    • 621 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    It was early in the morning in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. James Madison had been elected to be a representative to The Constitutional Convention. This morning, when he woke up he wasn't just hungry for food, he was also hungry for a strong government. He had an especially hearty breakfast, his meal consisted of eggs, bacon, and homemade biscuits that he had learned to make when he was growing up in Virginia. It wasn't a typical day, he woke up with an urge to write, to make a difference.…

    • 564 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Motivation Of Aaron Burrr

    • 1206 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Aaron Burr was native born to New Jersey and was dealt a rough childhood of sickness and family death, which included his parents in his first few years of life. He would grow up in under the brutal hands of his uncle that provided no support. Aaron Burr quickly took charge of his own destiny and at the age of eleven applied for admission to Princeton, but would not be accepted into the school until the age of thirteen. His determination and drive to reach his personal goals was reflected in studies in law and his ambition to volunteer for military service after the Battle of Lexington. Aaron Burr’s was made captain on the General Montgomery’s headquarters staff and would be exposed to his first combat engagement in the Battle of Quebec in…

    • 1206 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Arguments are common in politics, both in modern and historical times. Can you imagine the Vice President challenging a former Secretary of the Treasury to a duel to solve their problems? This very situation occurred in 1804 between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. It was a battle ten years in the making. The conflict between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which ended in a duel to the death, was important because it ruined a friendship, ended political careers that were helping form the new American government, cost Alexander Hamilton his life and Aaron Burr his quality of life.…

    • 1791 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Throughout this all-encompassing novel, Joseph J. Ellis is depicting what truly happened in prominent political events rather than the common ideas. He extensively goes into great depths rather than merely scraping the surface of these phenomenal affairs. Specifically, he elaborates on events such as the Duel between Hamilton and Burr, The Compromise of 1790, the plague of slavery, George Washington 's presidency, and the rocky friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. It is more than apparent that Ellis wrote this novel to provide great insight as to what really occurred on some of the most monumental days of American History. On a July morning of 1804, renowned politicians Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton met near the modern-day…

    • 1183 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Madison was a Virginian citizen and delegate, with the “easier path” of the two, he was raised “by a prosperous father, the wealthiest planter in Orange County”. Madison “had found purpose in the Revolution” after going to “the College of New Jersey (now Princeton)”, but “the bookish Virginian was a poor candidate for soldiering” so he moved his purpose to politics. Madison “was not only short and slight---no taller than five feet six inches and a bit over one hundred pounds”, he also suffered from an illness that resembled epilepsy. Madison was a unsocial, quiet, semi-hypocritical, non-narcissistic, sharp, unobtrusive man. Hamilton on the other hand, was “born on the island of Nevis, a flyspeck in the Caribbean”, and didn’t arrive in America until he was fourteen, when a “local businessman sent him to mainland America for formal education, first at a New Jersey academy and then at Kings College, now Columbia University.”…

    • 1172 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Alexander Hamilton’s plan was to take away old obligations by borrowing money at a low interest rate. Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Virginia, saw no reason why they should be taxed by the federal government to pay off the debts of other states. A debate started in Congress. Hamilton's debt program was a success, by demonstrating that American’s were capable of paying their debts, that also foreign investors were interested. European investments even popped up trying to invest.…

    • 536 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays