Hamilton The Musical Analysis Bundle

Help your students connect with history when studying the American Revolution in class. Listen to the soundtrack from Hamilton The Musical and use the songs to help shape classroom conversations regarding America's road to revolution!

Analysis facilitates students' analysis of how the musical addresses the following historical topics:

• Hamilton's childhood
• Hamilton's role in the Caribbean sugar & slave trade
• An introduction to America's Founding Fathers
• Politics in the 18th century
• Ideals of the "American Dream"
• An introduction to Aaron Burr and the Marquis de Lafayette
• Hamilton and Burr's educational backgrounds
• Politics in the 18th century
• Hamilton's early experiences in New York City
• An introduction to the Marquis de Lafayette, John Laurens, & Hercules Mulligan
• Early abolitionist goals for the Revolution
• Politics in the 18th century
• Causes of the American Revolution
• Battle of Yorktown
• Lafayette's role in the revolution
• General Cornwallis' surrender
• Hamilton's role as first Secretary of the Treasury
• Hamilton's plan to solve the debt crisis
• Federal assumption of state debts
• Creation of a National Bank
• Federalists vs. Democratic-Republicans
• Congressional Compromise