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Think about the video "The Battle Over the Creation of a National Bank" and "Cabinet Battle #1" from Hamilton: An American Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda to answer the question.
Tell me who's conflicting viewpoints of Hamilton or Jefferson regarding the creation of a national bank.
Believes the national bank is anti-democracy and believes the national bank would only benefit the northern states.
Jefferson
Washington's main warning in his Farewell address?
The dangers of political parties
In the Musical, Burr decides to not fire at Hamilton even though he believes Hamilton is going to kill him
False, because Burr does think Hamilton is going to kill him and fires at him
Think about Hamilton: An American Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda to answer question 3.
Read the excerpt from "The Room Where It Happens" from Hamilton: An American Musical, then answer the question.
[BURR]
Two Virginians and an immigrant walk into a room
[BURR AND ENSEMBLE]
Diametric’ly opposed, foes
[BURR]
They emerge with a compromise, having opened doors that were
[BURR AND ENSEMBLE]
Previously closed
What does the word immigrant imply in this song?
Hamilton is viewed as an outsider.
Who wrote Hamilton: An American Musical?
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Think about the video "The Battle Over the Creation of a National Bank" and "Cabinet Battle #1" from Hamilton: An American Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda to answer the question.
Tell me who's conflicting viewpoints of Hamilton or Jefferson regarding the creation of a national bank.
Believes that assuming state debts would be good for the entire country and the government control of the debt will help deal with the national debt
Hamilton
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Read the letter from Alexander Hamilton to Harrison Gray Otis, 23 December, 1800, and then answer the questions.
Burr loves nothing but himself; thinks of nothing but his own aggrandizement, and will be content with nothing, short of permanent power in his own hands. No compact that he should make with any passion in his breast, except ambition, could be relied upon by himself. How then should we be able to rely upon any agreement with him. Jefferson, I suspect, will not dare much. Burr will dare every thing, in the sanguine hope of effecting every thing.
Letter from Alexander Hamilton to Harrison Gray Otis, 23 December, 1800
What does the text reveal about how Hamilton views Burr?
He believes Burr cares about power but not about particular ideas.
Washington decides to not run for office because he believes he will loose.
False, he believes he needs to step down to allow people to get used to voting
Read the excerpt from "The World Was Wide Enough" from Hamilton: An American Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, then answer the questions.
Death doesn’t discriminate
Between the sinners and the saints
It takes and it takes and it takes
History obliterates
In every picture it paints
It paints me and all my mistakes
When Alexander aimed
At the sky
He may have been the first one to die
But I’m the one who paid for it
What is the meaning of the word obliterates as it is used in the excerpt?
ruins/destroys
Read the following excerpt from "The Room Where it Happens" to answer the question. What does Burr realize in the lyrics below?
"What did they say to you to get you to sell New York City down the river
Did Washington know about the dinner
Was there Presidential pressure to deliver?
Or did you know even then it doesn't matter where you put the U.S. capital?
Cause we'll have the banks, we're in the same spot
You got more than you gave
And I wanted what I got
When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game
But you don't get a win unless you play in the game
Oh, you get love for it
You get hate for it
But you get nothing if you"
Burr realizes that he needs to be more active in order to be involved in politics
Read the excerpt from "The World Was Wide Enough" from Hamilton: An American Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, then answer the questions.
Death doesn’t discriminate
Between the sinners and the saints
It takes and it takes and it takes
History obliterates
In every picture it paints
It paints me and all my mistakes
When Alexander aimed
At the sky
He may have been the first one to die
But I’m the one who paid for it
Pick two verses that tell me the meaning of the word Obliterates.
"It paints me and all my mistakes"
and
"But I’m the one who paid for it"
Think about "Washington's Runaway Slave" from The Liberator and "One Last Time" from Hamilton: An American Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda to answer the question.
How does Miranda's portrayal of Washington in Hamilton: An American Musical differ from his portrayal in "Washington's Runaway Slave"?
Miranda does not mention that Washington enslaved people, while The Liberator does.
Hamilton dueled because he believed that Burr ruined his political career
False, it was Burr who wanted to duel Hamilton
Read the excerpt from "Non-Stop" from Hamilton: An American Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, then answer the questions.
"Corruptions such an old song we can sing along in harmony and no where is it stronger than in Albany. This constitution's increasingly stalling and honestly that why public service seems to be calling me. I practiced the law, I practically perfected it".
What does the word stalling me as used in the paragraph above?
stopping, not moving
[BURR]You’ve kept me from—[COMPANY]The room where it happens [BURR] For the last time What does this excerpt foreshadow?
That he is going to challenge Hamilton to a fatal duel
Think about Hamilton: An American Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda to answer question 1.
Read the excerpt from "Non-Stop" from Hamilton: An American Musical, then answer the questions.
[BURR]
After the war I went back to New York
[HAMILTON]
A-After the war I went back to New York
[BURR]
I finished up my studies and I practiced law
[HAMILTON]
I practiced law, Burr worked next door
[BURR]
Even though we started at the very same time
Alexander Hamilton began to climb
How to account for his rise to the top?
Maaaaan, the man is
Non-stop!
How is Hamilton characterized as different from Burr in this excerpt?
Which phrase from the excerpt best supports the answer to Part A?
Hamilton's relentlessness causes him to succeed.
AND
"How to account for his rise to the top"
What does Washington mean in his Farewell address when he says,
"For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations."
That everyone is an American, whether natural or immigrint
Hamilton fears that his legacy will be the bullet that kills him
True
What is mood?
What is Tone?
How the author feels about something?
What mood is established at the end of the song, "The World was Wide Enough"? What line tell you this? Go find it in your book p. 727
gloomy, regretful, sad
After reading George Washington's Farewell Address. What does Washington mean when he says?
"I anticipate with pleasing expectation that retreat, in which I promise myself to realize without alloy the sweet enjoyment of partaking in the midst of my fellow citizens the benign influence of good laws under a free government—the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors and dangers."
That he hopes to retire and enjoy being a citizen of the country he helped to create
Jefferson does not want Hamilton to establish a bank even though he's a banker by trade
False, Jefferson is a Farmer and does not trust banks and believes they will only benefit the North
Read the excerpt from "Election of 1800" from Hamilton: An American Musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, then answer the questions.
Every action has its equal, opposite reaction
John Adams shat the bed, I love the guy, but he's in traction
Poor Alexander Hamilton, he is missing in action
So now I'm facing (Aaron Burr) with his own faction
He's very attractive in the North, New Yorkers like his chances
He's not very forthcoming on any particular stances
Ask him a question, it glances off, he obfuscates, he dances
And they say I'm a Francophile, at least they know I know where France is
What does the word obfuscates mean as used in the paragraph above?
to confuse/make unclear
What is Hamilton’s legacy according to this song, "Who lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story"
Hamilton's financial system as a major contribution to the new nation, Alexander Hamilton was an incredibly smart, competent, and driven Founding Father whose time was cut too short, and he could have done more with more time