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    there was John Adams and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr were the nominated candidates in the Democratic Republican party. Alexander Hamilton was the leader of the High Federalists. Both Hamilton and Adams did not like each other. This led to the Federalists party to divide into two groups, the ones who supported Hamilton and the ones who supported Adams. During the presidential election both political parties belittle one another in published articles since it was the

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    Violence can be described as a behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something. Violence has been around from the beginning and can be seen through history in writing and events that occurred. In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, violence’s jarring effects on societal members are evidenced through various relationships and partnerships, portraying society’s corrupt ideologies and ethics. Child abuse had a great on effect Huck’s whether if it

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    the dangers of political parties. There were two political parties that kept having conflicts with each other, the Federalist Party led by Alexander

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    Although Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton fought bitterly over issues of constitutional interpretation in the 1790s, the policies of the Jeffersonian Republican presidents Jefferson and Madison in the years 1801–1817 often reflected the beliefs of the Federalist Hamilton. During there presidencies, their economic and political policies did not reflect their personal beliefs, but instead reflected Federalist beliefs including Jefferson calling for the Embargo Act and Madison calling for the

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    As people may know, Alexander Hamilton ended up marrying Elizabeth Schuyler in the song called “Helpless.” However, there’s someone else who had feelings for Alexander, too. If some haven’t heard of this until now, they may be wondering: Who else could possibly love Alexander? Well, it was none other than Angelica Schuyler, Elizabeth’s sister and the oldest of the three sisters. In the song “Satisfied”, the whole night where Eliza and Hamilton meet is rewinded and told from Angelica’s point of view

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    this is Elizabeth Schuyler, a woman who is so much more than wife of first treasury-secretary Alexander Hamilton. She is credited with protecting his legacy that he had practically destroyed before his death, she made the nation see him as significant and protected his writing, a prime example of this being George Washington’s Farewell Address. She had done so much more. She supported her family after Hamilton left them with mountains of debt after his death. Schuyler had a hand in creating the first

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    political parties had different views on how we should live back in the 1700s-1800s.President George Washington was concerned that would fall into political parties and warned them about parties, however they did not stop the parties from forming. Alexander Hamilton was the founder of the Federalist and the co-founder was John Adams. “Political parties are not good.” George Washington once said, however he was a Federalist. Thomas Jefferson was the founder of the Democratic-Republican and the co-founder

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    The riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to inspire, scandalize and shape the new America. He was not officially known as one of America's founding father, Alexander Hamilton is best understood as the ideal immigrant story to the American Dream. The story of Alexander Hamilton written by Ron Chernow. I picked up this book a few years ago after I found out there was a Broadway show being created around it. I instantly wondered how they were going to create a Broadway musical around the story

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    Thomas Jefferson was not the typical hero. He was shy, reticent, and hypocritical on several occasions. Nevertheless, he accomplished countless remarkable achievements, including drafting the Declaration of Independence, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and becoming president of the United States, to preserve his ideals of liberty and democracy. He was also generous to others, which can be seen in his hospitality to the strangers that came to his house frequently. His efforts laid the

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    of taxes from the states and favored a strong military to protect the nation.You can find more information about the Federalists at Federalists want a strong national government, lots of industry, and are Pro-British. Their party was led by Alexander Hamilton. Over the decade of the 1790s, the Federalists stood for the following economic policies: funding of the old Revolutionary War debt and the assumption of state debts, passage of excise laws, creation of a central bank, maintenance of a tariff

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