History of the United States I / Unit 8 USH1 1095 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Burr and Hamilton
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The idea
On July eleventh, eighteen oh four, at Weehawken, New Jersey, Aaron Burr shot and mortally wounded Hamilton.
In practice
Burr, Jefferson's first vice president, having lost a New York gubernatorial race and blamed Hamilton.
Where people slip
Hamilton had long hated him and had done everything in his power to discredit him.
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