Hamilton

The book I chose to read was Alexander Hamilton- The Outsider by Jean Fritz. This book was rated at a 9th grade reading level but could be read in grades 6th- 8th depending on the students. There was quite a bit of information crammed into 144 pages and therefore can be useful in many different ways throughout the different age groups, even in the grades below 6th if the information is just taken from it. This being said, this book can be incorporated in many different ways in the classroom. As…

In the recent months Hamilton had slandered Burr in the paper under pseudonyms in the press which had lead to the dawn of July 11th. Burr, as acting vice president, had challenged Hamilton to a duel that Hamilton had begrudgingly accepted. Burr had made a promise to himself to aim at the sky; or delope. Hamilton did not. How could he throw away his shot with a loving wife and eight children at home. His father was never around and Hamilton knew he could never put his beloved children through…

Free will: Alexander Hamilton began life as an impoverished orphan and worked as hard as he possibly could to rise to the top. He was majorly intelligent and wrote non-stop and was willing to work to get out of the current state he was in. In the exercise of his free will, Hamilton defied the odds of dying alone and poor in the Caribbean and decided to go out and make something of himself. He became a new man in New York with the help of his friends Nicholas Cruger and Reverend Hugh Knox.…

During Andrew Shankman and Carson Holloway sermons, both scholars shared their viewpoints on Jefferson and Hamilton. As well as, I’ve learned about both “Founding Fathers,” based on their political views and rival between Jefferson and Hamilton. After learning more about Hamilton’s life and policies, in fact, he was an ambitious individual with many enemies on his back. However, I find Hamilton views were better than Jefferson in many ways: he wanted government and people to pay back their debt,…

The Political Accomplishments of Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hamilton was one of the founding fathers of our country. He was born on January 11, 1757 in Charlestown on the island of Nevis in the Leeward Islands, British West Indies (Yost 1). He moved to Elizabethtown, New Jersey in October, 1772 . There he was educated at King's College which later became Columbia University in New York City. During the Revolutionary War, he served four years as General Washington’s Chief of Staff. His…

hopes for America was what really called people to their unlike causes. Hamilton 's ambitious hopes for the United States were ultimately to be like Britain. His interests were surrounding the economy and industrial status of the United States. First and foremost, he wanted to increase trade with Britain (MP 163). Although this meant violating the Treaty of Alliance that American had signed in 1778, aligning them with France. Hamilton believed that trading with Britain, who was the manufacturing…

ALEXANDER HAMILTON Madison May History 2010- 06; American History 1 November 10, 2016 When most people think of the founding fathers the first person to come to mind isn’t normally Alexander Hamilton. Although he is one of the only people on U.S. money, being on the ten-dollar bill. Most people think of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, but Alexander Hamilton is both very interesting and very important. Hamilton is someone you learn about in both history classes…

Alexander Hamilton was born on the island of Nevis, British West Indies on January 11th, 1757. Alex was born to Rachel Fawcett Lavien and John Lavien. John Lavien was an abusive husband so Rachel decided to flee their relationship with Alexander and his brother James who was older. Rachel remarried to James Hamilton. When Alex was 10 his father, James, left them with all his debts for Rachel to deal with. Alexander took his first job when he was only 11. Despite his best efforts Alexander’s…

and Alexander Hamilton were two men who wanted change in the political party system. This is where the two new political parties were created, the Federalist party and the Democratic-Republicans. These two new forms of government brought new and different ideas on how to run a federal government. Most candidates of today still follow these ways of thinking, but their ideals are much less extreme, but also these ideas could be applied to some of the problems of today. Alexander Hamilton started…

Assessment on the Virtue of Alexander Hamilton “How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore...grow up to be a hero and a scholar?” opens the hit Broadway play Hamilton (Miranda). That question sums up the beginning and end of the life of Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Father of the United States, fairly well. He was born into poverty in the British West Indies, where eventually his father left him and his mother died. Nevertheless, thanks to hard work and determination, Hamilton went to college…