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Alexander Hamilton Chapter 1-51

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My essay is about the book called Alexander Hamilton will be summarizing the book from chapter one - forty. The very first chapter of the book was about a Lady named Rachel faucette, which is Alexander Hamilton mother. Rachel father died and left her all of his property which she had became rich. When she was sixteen years old she was forced to marry lavien. In 1745, there wedding took place at the grange ,Rachel wasn't happy with her husband . She was sent to prison for adultery which means intercourse between a married person and a person who is not married. By then Rachel wanted nothing to do with him. She found her strength to leave her husband. There was a point in her life that she met James Hamilton. After they met they soon had Alexander …show more content…

Hamilton and Burr have there disagreements but they work together to win in the same things. I'm chapter eleven it was mostly about there children. Hamilton wanted a big family with eliza. On September 25th 1784, Alexander Hamilton and eliza had their first daughter named angelica. Alexander and eliza produced eight kids in all. The third child named Alexander was born may 16 1786, they also took in an orphan name fanny they raised here til she was twelve and then she decided to leave the house and went to live with her married sister. I'm chapter 12 the revolutionary war experience prosperity that faded then went away and all this happened in 1785. By then Clinton had emerged from the war. By 1782, Hamilton still lauded Clinton as a "man of integrity". After the war Alexander Hamilton and George Clinton got along. Clinton had many tax problems and kept all the money and people thought it wasn't fair. The Virginia plan was mostly founded by James Madison. The states with large population Wil have a representative and smaller states won't . Clinton was convicted and was against Hamilton and made rumors that Hamilton was fake. Now I will continue on to chapter 13, what united the thirteen colonies was the …show more content…

While there was tension between Hamilton and Madison, Hamilton was trying to figure out coins and currency. So in chapter 19 called " city of the future " there were issues again with Alexander and Madison and it was about public credits. Eliza wanted a break from Hamilton and during the break he had an affair and the woman name Maria who he had the affair with wrote a letter telling him that James knew about the affair and that he should be careful. Hamilton was focus on the future and was planning to build more buildings. Hamilton made bad decisions in this chapter of the book. Washington was basically done with Alexander Hamilton in chapter 20 because of the financial problems that was happening he was fed up with it and Jefferson was trying to help Hamilton out by talking to Washington and telling him that Alexander had a good plan that will overtake America. During all of this there was alot of drama due to the affair he had in chchater 19 so now we are in chapter 21 he claimed he wanted to end the affair with Maria.The treasury department filed charges against Reynolds and clingman and they both ended up in jail but Reynolds thought Hamilton had something to do with this. So Maria and her husband divorce and he

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