Download Presentation PowerPoint Slideshow about 'American Pageant Chapter 7 Strengths & Weaknesses' - ocean-santos An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author.While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. • Badly organized for war • Lacking in unity • Continental Congress directing the war is a debating society with feeble power • Not till 1781 was there a written constitution (Articles of Confederation) • Sectionalism: jealousy amongst states • Little metallic $$$ - Congress fears taxing- prints “Continental” paper money”Not worth a continental” depreciated currency • Families rocked by inflation caused men to desert the army • Lack of fire arms and gun powder: Franklin proposed going back to bow & arrow. • Clothing & Shoes were scarce (2,800 barefoot and barely clothed soldiers at Valley Forge) • Militiamen numerous but unreliable • 5,000 blacks enlisted in American armed forces • 1775 Lord Dunmore the royal governor of VA. Issues a proclamation promising freedom for any enslaved black in VA who joined the British army • 300 slaves join “Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment” in first month, thousands would follow. (Madison slave story pg.138) • At end of war British evacuate 14,000 “Black Loyalists” to Nova Scotia, Jamaica, and England. • Attempt to take Canada puts colonists on the offensive • Want to deprive British of base for striking at them • Gen.
HWF #8 11/20 Chapter 8 American Colonies Secede (copies in class). Chapter 8 HWF. The powerpoint on The Chicago History Fair project is attached. Reading: Chapters 5 and 6 from The American Pageant. The work is in.rtf format and should be readable in Word, Works, Mac. Installing pse actions (for mac wilna furstenberg blog). Late work is.
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Richard Montgomery captures Montreal • Gen. Benedict Arnold meets him in Quebec his men eat dogs and shoe leather during their march through the woods from Maine • Dec. 31, 1775 Americans are beaten Montgomery is killed & Arnold is wounded in the leg • French Canadian leaders were treated fairly by Quebec act and did not welcome the anti-catholic invaders • March 1776 British forced out of Boston (Evacuation Day is still celebrated every March 17). • Loyalty to crown deeply ingrained • Jan 1776 Washington officers were still toasting “God Save the King” Things Start to Change • Harsh acts like burning of Falmouth Maine (Oct 1775) & Norfolk, Virginia (Jan 1776) • Common Sense is published • Each time an American died so did part of moderation • The news of fighting, death, and suffering starts to spread from New England. Soldiers from the Middle & Southern colonies began to march toward Boston. As they left home so did the spirit of compromise • John Adams “The cancer is too deeply rooted and too far spread to be cured by anything short of cutting it out entire”.
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