MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
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Question
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He kept working hard, reading, and writing.
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He gave up and decided to become a bum.
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He moved around from family member to family member.
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He did nothing. He just accepted that life as his fate.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Alexander Hamilton grew up in a family characterized by financial hardship, marital discord and bitter separations, public humiliations, parental death and abandonment.
Detailed explanation-2: -At the age of 12, Hamilton began work as a clerk in a general store, but the boy had a keen intellect and ambitious goals. He was an excellent writer, in French as well as English.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Hamilton’s case, he wrote about an event that touched the lives of everyone on the island. His words-originally a letter, but published in a local Gazette-so moved the people that they collected money for him.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamilton accurately captures some of Alexander Hamilton’s more obvious personality faults: his arrogance, his impulsiveness, his temper, his womanizing, and his tactlessness. Unfortunately, the musical glosses over some of his more troubling faults, most notably his authoritarian political leanings.