MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
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Question
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He had some when he was younger
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He never had any
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He went to school until he graduated
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He only knew how to read and write and never went to school
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamilton wrote a letter about the devastating storm, published in the Royal Danish American Gazette, of such poetic eloquence that a subscription fund was taken up to send the promising young intellectual to North America for a formal education. In 1773, Hamilton was entered at King’s College (Now Columbia).
Detailed explanation-2: -Hamilton began his preparation for college at a grammar school in New Jersey and enrolled in King’s College in 1774.
Detailed explanation-3: -Alexander Hamilton was born out of wedlock in Nevis, British West Indies (now in Saint Kitts and Nevis), in either 1755 or 1757, and his father abandoned the family in 1765. The following year Alexander went to work, becoming a clerk. When his mother died in 1768, Alexander became a ward of her relatives.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamilton attended King’s College, which is now Columbia University, but didn’t graduate. He later passed the bar exam, allowing him to practice law. He and Aaron Burr were regulars in Albany because the state’s main courts were there.