GA Sweeps Review: On Hold
As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria. I'm specifically going over all of the "World History-Americas" articles. I believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed. I have made multiple corrections and have included several points below that need to be addressed for the article to remain a GA. Please address them within seven days and if progress is being made then the article will remain listed as a Good article. Otherwise, it may be delisted. If improved after it has been delisted, it may be nominated at WP:GAN. Here are the points that need to be addressed:
Expand the lead to better summarize the article. It should mention a little bit about each heading within the article. The current two sentences isn't sufficient in describing the article. For guidelines, see WP:LEAD. The first paragraph in the background sections reads like part of the lead, consider rewording part of it and merging it into the current lead.
"Many subsequent historians have considered the causes of the duel to be flimsy and have thus either characterized Hamilton as "suicidal", Burr as "malicious and murderous," or both." Single sentence shouldn't stand alone. Either expand on it or incorporate it into another paragraph. Go through the rest of the article and fix any other occurrences.
"When the original pistol was examined, the concealed hair trigger was discovered. (Reference: "Pistols shed light on famed duel," Smithsonian magazine, November 1976)" This reference should be converted to an inline citation.
This is not required, but consider converting the url inline citations to the templates used at WP:CITET.

Needs inline citations:
"The most famous duel in American history..." If this is going to be stated a citation needs to be included.
"...partook in "hooliganish" behavior in..." If "hooliganish" is in quotation marks, then it needs to have a source directly after the sentence.
"There, after much debate and tight gridlocking, the influence of Alexander Hamilton, a very respected Federalist persuaded Federalists that Jefferson was the lesser of two evils."
"It claimed to describe "a still more despicable opinion which General Hamilton has expressed of Mr. Burr" at a political dinner."
"In a letter delivered by William P. Van Ness, Burr demanded "a prompt and unqualified acknowledgement or denial of the use of any expression which would warrant the assertion of Dr. Cooper"."
"The bullet ricocheted off Hamilton's second or third false rib—fracturing it—and caused considerable damage to his internal organs, particularly his liver and diaphragm before becoming lodged in his first or second lumbar vertebra."
"...“Pendleton knows I did not mean to fire at Col. Burr the first time”."
"In addition, Hamilton had been reported as having severe mood swings, characteristic of a manic-depressive starting as early as 1800. If Hamilton was indeed manic-depressive, his intentions for dueling with Burr may have been psychologically delusional."
"the same pair which had once shot a button off of Aaron Burr's coat some five years earlier during a duel with Hamilton's brother-in-law"
"The guns are on display in the Executive Conference center of 277 Park Avenue in Manhattan."

I'll leave messages on the talk pages of the contributors of this article (using WikiDashBoard) along with any related WikiProjects so that the workload can be shared. The above issues shouldn't take too long to fix and if you have any questions about them let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.