Aaron Burr

During the election of 1800, Jefferson, as well as Aaron Burr, received 73 electoral votes. Consequently, the election ended in a tie. Usually, in the past elections, the person with the most votes became the President and the runner up became the Vice President. Since the votes were a tie, it was up to the House of Representatives to decide who would be the president. Thomas Jefferson won the higher amount of electoral votes, 36, and started his presidency. As a result of the dilemma caused…

hopes to recover the “sense of urgency” during the Revolutionary War. He repeats to the reader that the Founding Fathers did not believe that they would win the war. The first chapter of this novel examines The Duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Ellis adds this to discuss how the importance of a reputation can be a…

The novel I have selected is Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation; I selected this novel because I’m intrigued about the history of how our country was founded and about the days of trying to keep it together after our new found independence was gained. In the novel, one of the first key points highlighted was how some of the leaders of the time period wanted to become their own country while others had no intentions of becoming an independent country once the succeeded from England.…

Entanglement with France - Purchase a vast amount of land for very little money : - Possible Entanglement with Britain : : 5. Aaron Burr plotted to have high federalist form a Northern Confederacy which would be pro-Britain and in this way get federalist nomination for the governorship of New York. He was thwarted when Hamilton published his opinions on burr and his plot so people would not support him in the election.\ 6. Jefferson responded to the impressment by imposing an embargo…

One’s life relies heavily on both where they have come from and where they plan on going in the future. The past shapes people to be who they are and to form their morals. But for the future, it is determined by the ambitions a person holds. For the main characters of the book The Great Gatsby, the Broadway play Hamilton, and the movie Citizen Kane, their pasts and ambitions unfortunately limit the characters and eventually lead to their downfalls. In The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald,…

Hamilton's "enduring claim to fame." Following his resignation in 1795, Hamilton practiced law in New York City and continued his interest in New York and national politics. His attacks on political rival Aaron Burr resulted in the latter's challenge to a duel. He reluctantly accepted, and he met Burr on the morning of July 11, 1804 in Weehauken, New Jersey. Hamilton was mortally wounded and died the following…

George Washington as we all know was the very first President of the United States of America. Along with the Secretary of Treasury who was Alexander Hamilton and John Adams as Vice President. George Washington was a Federalist so he had strong beliefs in having a strong government along with a strong executive branch. Washington had to goal when becoming president, the first was to translate the US Constitution and translate it into an actual form of government. Then in order to form the…

immigrant who came to New York to improve his life. “How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore, and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor, Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?”(Aaron Burr, “Alexander Hamilton.”) It doesn’t matter if you grew up without parents, lower-class, or a different country. Hamilton was a young man who had nothing but made sure he never renounced reading a book. Someone’s class, gender, ethnicity,…

Both the Democratic-Republican and Federalist parties had their own opinions and views, but overall the Democratic-Republicans had a more suiting view the overall atmosphere of the country at the time. The parties "The Federalists' downfall was owing primarily to their self-defeating political philosophy, to their ineptness as politicians, and their vindictiveness with which, in their hour of triumph, they used, their political enemies" (Miller 276). The fall of the Federalist party was…

banking, private wealth management, asset management, and investment banking. Over 12,000 companies have been absorbed over the years into what is now JPMorgan Chase & Co., the oldest being The Bank of The Manhattan Company, which was founded by Aaron Burr, among others, in 1799. The merger that resulted in the company’s current form took place in 2000, when J. P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated combined with Chase Manhattan Corporation. The company has been led by CEO Jamie Dimon since 2005, and, as…