The Room Where it Happened (is the Upper Room of the Last Supper)
The Room Where it Happened ( is the Upper Room of the Last Supper ) In the musical Hamilton , Alexander Hamilton is trying to get his debt plan through Congress, the plan that eventually established a federal banking system (among other things) of the United States. Hamilton arranges a “dinner” with Jefferson and Madison, who both have objected to the plan, with the intent to strike a deal. Hamilton meets Aaron Burr on the way to the dinner, and lets it slip that he is going to meet with the 2 men to work out a deal. Burr “wants in” - he has always felt jealous of Hamilton’s ability to persevere when he started from nothing. Burr was Princeton- educated and wealthy , with a distinguished family, while Hamilton came from the West Indies , the illegitimate son of a plantation owner and his married mistress . He had no fancy education, no family, and nothing to claim as his own but somehow wound up a significant person in the Revolution and the forming of t...