1. Hamilton's debut dates back to 2009. The main creator LMM was invited by then US President Barack Obama to perform the prelude of the musical of the same name at the White House. In December 2016, when Obama left office, he invited the original card team to the White House again. The camera gave Obama a half-minute close-up during the performance to the Washington Farewell. The protagonist Hamilton and the main creator Lin are descendants of Latin American immigrants and spent their childhood in the Caribbean. Obama, the first African American president. These three descendants of immigrants, after two hundred years, met in a miraculous way. In his introductory speech, Obama said: "Hamilton's story is the story of every immigrant family, and it is also the embodiment of the American spirit."
2. The U.S. Treasury Department was going to remove Hamilton's portrait from the ten dollars and replace it with a female affirmative-action activist named Harriet Tubman. Because of the popularity of the musical, it was the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, who was eventually replaced on $20. Although the Democratic Party founded by Jackson is now the backbone of American politics, his policy of expelling Indians has also attracted a lot of criticism for him.
3. In Hamilton's debut aria, My Shot, he sang "Britain keeps pointing fingers at us, extorting taxes, and endlessly." In 1756, Britain and France fought a seven-year war over the ownership of the North American colonies. Although Britain eventually gained more land, in order to make up for the huge costs of the war, Britain began to impose import taxes on thirteen North American colonies and increased inspections of smuggling. This series of operations directly violated the colonial interests with trade as the core economy, and eventually led to the outbreak of the American War of Independence.
4. In Schulyer Sister's debut aria, Angelica mentions "all men are created equal / When I meet Thomas Jefferson / I will ask him to add women's rights to include women in the sequel." The early days of the U.S. Constitution guaranteed only the rights of white men who owned land. It wasn't until 1920, more than a hundred years later, that the Nineteenth Amendment was passed that women had the right to vote and vote.
5. You'll be back. King George Tsundere's debut has the lyrics "You can't bear the price of my love/You cry over the tea you poured into the sea." This alludes to the Boston Tea Party in 1773. Demonstrators poured a shipment of Owner India Company tea into Boston Bay in protest against a British tea tax.
6. Right Hand Man. Becoming an aide to Washington, the founding father, was the start of Hamilton's career, but Washington was initially a staunch supporter of the loyalist party. On the eve of the Revolutionary War, the main war faction and the main peace faction quarreled endlessly. According to unofficial records, at the dinner of the Virginia Congress in 1775, Washington’s congratulatory speech was still “To King George” when he toasted.
7. Satisfied. At Hamilton and Eliza's wedding, Angelica confessed her admiration for Hamilton, but couldn't be with him because of her status. "My father has no son/so the mission of inheriting the family business falls on my shoulders." Friends who have watched Downton Abbey should remember that in the first season, the eldest cousin started all kinds of dramas because he was not qualified to inherit property and titles. . As a British colony, the United States inherited the British system. For a long time, women had no legal inheritance and property rights. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" tells the story of the heroine who could not stop her husband from selling black slaves because he had no property rights.
8. Guns and Ships. Lafayette arrives. After France was defeated by Britain in the Seven Years' War, it had been unwilling. After the colonial uprising, the two forces hit it off and formed an alliance. This triangular relationship will continue into the early days of the United States, and it has profoundly affected the early American foreign policy.
9. In 1788, the U.S. Constitution was voted on. The Constitution stipulates that each state has its own sovereignty. Despite its historic standing, the Constitution is vague on many issues, allowing the same provision to be understood in several ways. Throughout the second half of the play, the main conflict between Hamilton and Jefferson is caused by state rights vs. federal rights and how to interpret the Constitution.
11. Cabinet debate #1. Southern aristocrats, represented by Jefferson, wanted to strengthen state power and opposed Hamilton's plan to establish a national bank and issue national debt. The farming-dominated South vs. the trade-dominated North. Jefferson said, "In Virginia / We farm hard / You want something for nothing." Hamilton shot back: You slave owner and I sing a high note, we all know it's the black slaves who are farming. Although the Declaration of Independence drafted by Jefferson is the inheritance of American political thought, it is also an indisputable fact that he owned slaves and had illegitimate children with black slaves. During the black protest movement some time ago, his statue was also pushed up by demonstrators.
12. Take a break. In this song, Eliza wants Hamilton to take a break from work and go to the lake with the family to escape the summer heat. Hamilton taunted john adams, saying he wasn't doing any serious work either. "Here is to rectify Adams' name. Although he has no role in the play, he proposed the concept of the separation of powers in the US government, and he will become the second president of the United States in the future. He is not as bad as Hamilton said.
13. One Last Time. Washington's Farewell. With Washington's approval ratings at the time, he could be re-elected indefinitely, but he chose to stay away from power and established a tradition that US presidents can only be re-elected for a maximum of two terms. "Use my influence to tell this country how to say goodbye / This will outlast my personal exploits"
14. Adams Administration. Adams defeated Jefferson to become the second president of the United States. During his term, the division between him and Jefferson in foreign and domestic affairs intensified, eventually forming the Federalist party led by him and Hamilton, and the democratic party led by Jefferson and Madison The Republican Party (democratic-republican). At this point, the two-party system of the US government has begun to take shape.
15. The Election of 1800. The 1800 election. Although Adams and Hamilton belonged to the same party, they had very different views on French foreign policy. Washington and Hamilton believed that the United States should remain neutral in the Anglo-French war, but after France retaliated by seizing American merchant ships, Adams changed his mind and formed a navy to declare war on France. New and old grudges accumulated, and after a public sparring, Adams and Hamilton broke up. As written in the play, the feud damaged Adams' political clout and indirectly contributed to his loss to Jefferson in the 1800 election. But in fact, Adams's tough attitude toward France made his approval rate skyrocket. The straw that really killed him was the Alien and Sedition Acts he introduced, which allowed the president to arrest and deport so-called "" The enemy of the government and the state." The American people, just freed from oppressive rule, worried that their government would go the way of the British, and Adams was also disillusioned. But he finally lived to the age of 90 and saw his son become the sixth president of the United States, which is also a beginning and an end.
16. The election of Jefferson in 1800 gave birth to a landmark case in American judicial history, Marbury vs. Madison. The specific content of the case will not be discussed, and it has nothing to do with the drama, but this case proposes the concept of judicial review/judicial review, that is, the Supreme Court has The final interpretation right of the Constitution clarifies the system of separation of the executive, legislative and judicial powers in the United States.
17. The World Was Wide Enough. Showdown. In the play, Burr duels Hamilton for supporting Jefferson in the election, and eventually kills Hamilton. The duel actually took place in 1804, after Burr lost the race for governor of New York. Afterwards, he was suspected of treason, his reputation was discredited, and the rest of his life was impoverished, very unhappy, and quite embarrassing.
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