would shape the country’s future for generations to come. The election took a big turn when John Adams came in third, and there was a tie between the two Republican candidates, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. The audio of Thomas Jefferson describes the race as an “arising deadlock between Burr and Jefferson.” (Ace, 1:55). The audio demonstrates how the media could only see this election as the race between Adams and Jefferson. In order to vote for the President and Vice-President…
1. As Benjamin Rush explained, the signers of the Declaration of Independence were uncertain that they would survive their revolutionary act. The signers could have easily been hunted down, tried for treason, and executed. They knew that what they were doing was bold, but they did not know that it would be shaping and changing America for years to come. Today, we view these founders as brave men who made intelligent decisions in order to change America for the better. However, a lot of the…
However, one man clearly stood out as his main antagonist. Aaron Burr, Alexander’s friend-turned-enemy, became jealous of the political power Hamilton had as Secretary of Treasury. When Burr pursued the position of President of the United States, Hamilton gave Thomas Jefferson his vote. This seemed like the ultimate betrayal to Burr and they decided to have a duel. Their bitter rivalry ended one early morning in New Jersey when Burr shot and killed Hamilton. If they had handled their conflict…
The author did make some few arguments about how Hamilton’s and burr’s assistance and comparing which one was telling the truth or what was the facts. Biases were the number one reason America had to start with war. Because many things were unfair to them instead of ruling themselves and their own world not others like England. There were some few sentences that Ellis writes his own form to understand the reader of what is going on. Only chapter that it was really interested was the farewell.…
Ellis writes this book in order to show what these founding brothers went through by explaining the difficult time in which they lived in. He uses recollection and insight to understand not only what the brothers experienced at the time, but knowing what we Americans see in them in today’s society. “Americans Success wasn’t always a foregone conclusion” as Ellis mentions grabbing the reader’s attention to the Founding Fathers. Ellis opens up the book by clarifying Alexander Hamilton’s and…
a treasury for the government. Hamilton was made into a leader and help washington to come up with a couple of strategies for war. Burr and Hamilton’s turbulent relationship lead them to their inevitable fate, which was that they were arguing who’s going to be the next president and that Burr wanted Hamilton to vote for him. In the song “Your Obedient Servant” “Burr state’s his opinion on Hamilton that he is a arrogant immigrant, orphan bastard, son of whore. In the song “The Ten Dual…
Hamilton is a revolutionary work of Art: It Should Be Encouraged Not Criticized. Everything that comes new, often encounters criticism. Some critique flashes out its fallacies, pointing out its room for improvement. On the contrary, some are just motivated to demean the significance of others. A recently released musical Hamilton holds true to this. It succeeded to amass prolific attention - Never seen before in American music history, it, however, also received criticisms from all over the…