In the novel,”Founding Brothers” author Joseph Ellis illustrates the Revolutionary era by providing insights of the Founding Fathers. Ellis also distinguishes the behind scenes look during the revolutionary period as he comes across the explanation of how America successfully achieved their independence from Great Britain, declaration of Independence, and established the United States Constitution. Ellis takes the reader back into American history to view how these founding fathers (Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison) contributed to the American Revolution.Alexander Hamilton “was [the] secretary of treasury”(48). He was described as an ambitious man, he had developed a financial plan to pay off the state debts. Part of his plan was to collaborate a National Bank. He wanted Congress to charter this bank that would provide stability to America's economy by establishing loans to merchants, handling government funds, and issuing …show more content…
Washington successfully lead the Battle of Saratoga, this battle in, which resulted as an American victory helped to convince the French to ally with the Americans. Thus, producing a powerful American army against the British, where the british were defeated at Yorktown. In the battle of Yorktown British commander, Charles Cornwallis surrendered to Washington because his British army had no chance against Washington’s American troops who surrounded Cornwallis's escape from Yorktown. Meanwhile, the French troops blocked the sea, preventing the British troops from escaping through sea. Despite the success at Yorktown war still continued, this is when the Treaty of Paris kicked in to alter the war for good. This treaty would have Britain accept the concept that the 13 American colonies would officially be independent from