MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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There was a tornado.
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There was a hurricane.
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There was a mass slaughter of native people.
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There was a massive influx of money to the poor people.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamilton’s father abandoned the family in 1766 and his mother died two years later. Hired as a clerk in a trading company on St. Croix when he was just 11, Hamilton gained wider attention after he published an eloquent letter describing a hurricane that had hit the island in 1772.
Detailed explanation-2: -I take up my pen just to give you an imperfect account of one of the most dreadful Hurricanes that memory or any records whatever can trace, which happened here on the 31st ultimo at night. It began about dusk, at North, and raged very violently till ten o’clock.
Detailed explanation-3: -For “Hurricane, ” that line is Hamilton’s refrain that “I wrote my way out”-out of the Caribbean, into revolution, into the president’s Cabinet, and now into a sex scandal-and in “Wrote My Way Out, ” it becomes an evocation of Miranda’s original inspiration for Hamilton.
Detailed explanation-4: -The “Youth” who authored the letter was a 17-year-old clerk named Alexander Hamilton.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.