Aaron Burr

Washington’s staff and lieutenant colonel of the army. This also led him to meet many of Washington’s close friends. The most important including, Philip Schuyler, John Laurens, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (Lafayette), and his enemy and friend, Aaron Burr. Each of these men had an impact on his life in some way. All of these men fought together at Valley Forge. Philip and Hamilton had a great relationship which led to Philip agreeing to a courtship of Hamilton and his daughter,…

Enter Amira. Amira Armelle flips enters the blank document and types away desperately, she tries to compensate for the time she’d lost while procrastinating the 1500 word essay she was supposedly “finishing” for the past 3 hours. She had spent the majority of the day loitering around the beach town with her best friends, Rosi and Maria, as there wasn’t much else to do in the small beach town of Navarre when ignoring your responsibilities. But as they always do, these responsibilities will…

How does a play about a bastard, orphan, son of a whore go on and on grow into more of a phenomenon? Lin Manuel Miranda changed Broadway in 2015 with his musical Hamilton. Inspired by a biography by Ron Chernow about the life of Alexander Hamilton, Miranda went to work on what might be the most influential musical of the decade. Miranda, in creating his work, had to work through the constraints, find the exigence, and establish the audience for writing a Broadway musical while also making it…

reputations would rest” (Ellis 18). Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation is a historical non-fiction novel written by the accredited historian Joseph J. Ellis. Founding Brothers is about the founding fathers of the United States (Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, Washington, and Adams) and how they formed the new nation. Together, the seven men went through many trials and periods of triumphs as they struggled to create a foundation for the new nation. Founding Brothers…

April 30, 1803, when the Louisiana Purchase treaty is signed. This agreement doubled the size of the United States, giving territory from the Mississippi river to the Rocky Mountains. Edward Preble is chosen to be commander of U.S. navy by Jefferson. Burr kills Alexander Hamilton during a duel, dying on July 11, 1804. By this time the 20th amendment is ratified and Jefferson runs for reelection and is inaugurated for a second term in March of 1805. The U.S. are finally able to win a major…

Alexander Hamilton was born in Charlestown,St.Kitts, Nevis on January 11,1755, yet some speculate he was born in 1757 because it was the year used by Hamilton’s family and himself . He was raised in squalor. Alexander’s father left him when he was ten, and his mother died when Alexander was twelve. Alexander and his brother, James, went to live with their cousin, who killed himself few months later. By 14, Alexander was in charge of a trading charter. When he was 17, a hurricane destroyed his…

Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father and the third President of the United States between 1801 and 1809. He worked in the Continental Congress, as Virginia representative and as wartime Governor of Virginia at the start of American Revolution (1779–1781). He was voted as the U. S Minister to France in May 1785 and later the first U. S Secretary of State in 1790 and served up to 1793 under President George Washington’s rule. Jefferson and Madison opposed Hamilton’s ideology by…

exact date is unknown), on the island of Nevis, British West Indies. In 1788, he convinced New Yorkers to agree to ratify the U.S Constitution. On July 12, 1804, in New York City, Hamilton died of a gunshot wound that he sustained during a duel with Aaron Burr. Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston in 1706. Benjamin Franklin helped to draft the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, and he negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War. Benjamin Franklin…

Alexander Hamilton was great man, just as great founding father, but was he severely under appreciated. Alexander was a founding father who did much for our country and our constitution and afterwards the United States economy. He spent most of his life working his way up the political ladder to make a difference. Alexander was a great economist and would end up losing his life for from a long time nemesis because Hamilton believed he had no place in politics . There is very much Alexander did…

Washington Post data writer, Dylan Matthews, in his article, No, Edward Snowden Probably Didn’t Commit Treason, asserts his belief that Edward Snowden did not commit treason by releasing that information, according to the law. Matthews’ purpose is to inform and persuade by explaining that according to what the law says and what actual cases of treason show, Snowden is not a traitor is to the general public. Matthews created an effective argument presenting his belief that Snowden is not a…