Founding Fathers Reflections The Generation - 1398 Words

Erin Tran Period 4 Founding Fathers Reflections Preface: The Generation In the first few pages of this chapter, I thought it was interesting that Ellis really goes into detail about hindsight and far sight saying that because of hindsight, many of the founders could only see the goal of being independent. However there were some that saw the plentiful amount of resources and the potential America had to form a government. But all of the Founding Fathers were not sure that they would win the war. Then after, when they were gathered to expand the Articles of Confederation, there were people who wanted power to be kept at a local level and there were those who thought federalism was better and wanted to make a larger and more†¦show more content†¦Chapter One: The Duel After finishing this chapter, I thought it was quite odd that he didn’t explain what happened before the duel first. Instead Ellis could have gave more info of maybe something that could backup our knowledge of the American Revolution. But, it also could have just been a way to make someone more interested because we first learn that Hamilton gets shot and after knowing that we want to know WHY Burr shot Hamilton. But Ellis hints that the Founding Fathers had harsh expectations for each other and they all had lots of honor to defend such as Hamilton; he did not plan to oppose Burr, but Hamilton still went to meet Burr. Then as it said in the start of the chapter. The consequences given to Burr were worse than the ones given to Hamilton -which was death-. This was a private matter between two Founding Fathers, and they tried their best to keep it private by doing things such as being in a private place or making all people nearby turn away so they could not be witnesses. But it was probably quite hard for them to keep this â€Å"private† matter away from the public, even with all of these precautions. Later in the chapter we learned that the Founding Fathers were afraid of breakdown of the federal government and The Duel was a display of the fear of the breakdown. Chapter Two: The Dinner So again the chapter was placed in a funky order and talks about the Dinner first and then it later talks about