Alexander Hamilton
Who killed him in a duel
Aaron Burr
Where was he born
Caribbean island of Nevis
His father the Scottish trader name?
James Hamilton
Eacker, had given a speech in which he accused Hamilton of being a ______
monarchist
Rachel left her husband because he spent ____ and imprisoned her for _____
much of her family's fortune, adultery
Were his parents married?
no
Hamilton's outspoken, polarizing style of _____ (and an embarrassing sex scandal) limited his later career prospects
politics
The Patriot strategy in the attack was to approach the redoubts "in silence with guns _____, encircle the enemy and force them to ___ quickly with few casualties,"
unloaded, surrender
Burr was a ___ for Jefferson
vice president
When was hamilton born
1755 or 1757
Hamilton's father abandoned the family in _____ and his mother died ____ years later.
1766, two
When and who gave him a position on his staff?
1777, George Washington
In ___, he married _______, the daughter of a wealthy and influential New York landowner and military officer.
1780, Elizabeth Schuyler
Hamilton left Washington's staff in _____, but returned to the army briefly later that year when Washington gave him a field command at the ____.
1781, Battle of Yorktown.
When did he leave his treasury
1795
When did he die
1804
How many federalists papers did Hamilton write
51
How long was his speech about a strong government and wanting to make a....
6 hours, monarchy
How many children did him and his wife have
8
Hamilton got involved in the colonial cause, writing pamphlets like ____ in which he defended the First Continental Congress's proposal to embargo trade with ___
A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress, Britian
What was the first bank of the united states
Bank of England
Where else did he lead an attack?
Battle of Yorktown
_____were to be used to avoid giving away specific locations and silence was ordered."
Bayonets
_____, professor of history at Boston University, adds that Hamilton had always been sensitive about his humble roots so it was important to him to prove himself during the war.
Brendan McConville
He led an assault that led to the surrender of?
Charles Cornwallis
Hamilton and Aaron Burr had been political opponents since the debate over the ____ in 1789.
Constitution
Jefferson and burr were both?
Democratic-Republicans
the divide between Hamilton (who favored neutrality) and Jefferson (who wanted the United States to back France) had begun to shape the nation's first political parties, the ____ and the ____
Federalists, Democratic-Republicans.
According to historian Joanne ___, he was involved in no fewer than ____ affairs of honor (or near duels)
Freeman, 10
Along with ______ and _____, Hamilton published a series of ______defending the new document to the American people.
James Madison, John Jay, 85 essays
Where and when was the dueling ground?
July 11, 1804, Weehaken New Jersey
Where did he study?
Kings college (columbia university)
Who opposed Hamilton financial policies
Madison and Thomas Jefferson
Locals helped raise money to send him to America to study, and he arrived in _____ in late ___
New york, 1772
Initially, according to _____, command of the assault on Redoubt 10 was given to someone else. Hamilton objected
Newton
In 1787, when a federal convention was held in ____ to overhaul the _____ , Hamilton was chosen as one of three delegates from New York.
Philadelphia, Articles of Confederation
Alexander Hamilton's first-born son, _____, was killed in a duel in ____ while attempting to defend his father's honor against attacks by New York lawyer ______
Phillip, 1801, George Eacker.
Burr angered Hamilton further by running successfully against Hamilton's father-in-law, ___ Schuyler, for the ____ in 1791.
Phillip, U.S senate
Hamiltons mother
Rachel Faucette
Alexander Hamilton made his reputation during the _____ and became one of America's most influential ______
Revolutionary War, Founding Fathers
In the infamous _____ published in 1797, Hamilton went public with his affair with a married woman, _____, in order to clear his name from any suspicion of illegal _____ involving her husband, ____
Reynolds Pamphlet, Maria Reynolds, financial speculation, James
Battle of yorktown lasted from ____ ______ , 1781, with the French attacking the British fort at Redoubt 9 and Hamilton attacking ______ simultaneously
September 28 to October 19, Redoubt 10
When was hamilton hired as a clerk in a trading company on ____
St. Croix, 11 years old
When the Revolutionary War began, he was commissioned to lead an ______ in the Continental Army and fought bravely in the battles of _______
artillery company, Trenton and Princeton
Seeking to provide lasting financial stability for the new nation, Hamilton argued for the importance of a national _____ and the federal government's assumption of state debts.
banking system
washington stepped down after two terms and Hamilton wrote his?
farewell address
When washington was president he appointed hamilton?
first secretary of the U.S. Treasury.
When both men fired whos shot missed and who died?
hamilton missed and died
Hamilton gained wider attention after he published an eloquent letter describing a _____
hurricane that had hit the island in 1772.
Burr fixated on a newspaper article that claimed that Hamilton had ____ him at a private dinner. He confronted hamilton. When Hamilton characteristically refused to back down, Burr challenged him to a ___
insulted, duel
Election tie between ___ and burr. Even though Jefferson had long been his political rival, Hamilton helped sway _____ in Congress to vote in Jefferson's favor to break the tie and defeat Burr.
jerrerson, burr, federalists,
As the first________, Hamilton built a financial foundation for the new ______, against fierce opposition from arch rival _______
secretary of the U.S. Treasury ,nation, Thomas Jefferson.
He was an impassioned champion of a ________ and played a key role in defending and ratifying the ________
strong federal government, U.S. Constitution.
Hamilton's ____ prowess and _____helped him thrive as Washington's aide-de-camp, and built his reputation in Revolution-era society.
writing, military skills
Did burr lose when he wanted to run for governor of new york in the early 1800s
yes
