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Revolutionary War
Explain how different American and British choices during the war might have changed its outcome.
Analyze why France joined the war on the American side and the importance of this decision to an American victory.
Identify the strengths of the British army at the outset of the Revolutionary War and account for England’s failure to win it quickly.
Show how white women and African Americans hoped for changes in their respective positions in society and analyze the degree to which their conditions actually changed.
By: Dalton Minton
America is very lucky to have one the Revolutionary war. So many things went our way and if those things had not we would have been defeated. Britain was dumb to join the war when they did because it gave America time to prepare for war. They joined late because they didn’t want a war and they wanted to keep the loyalists happy ("americanrevlutionarywar.net,"). Keeping the loyalist happy was huge factor in the war they spent so much time making them happy even after Britain joined the war that it caused them not to fight as well. Another huge factor was the way that information had to travel. It would take two months to get a message to Britain and then another two months to get it sent back to the colonies ("n2genealogy.com," 2011). All the while all it took for Americans to pass a message was a couple weeks give or take depending on distance. Distance between the Colonies and Britain was a big factor. If they had been any closer they would have beaten us. If they were closer they could have gotten supplies to their soldiers or sent more soldiers to areas that needed it. If Britain needed supplies they would need to wait two months ("americanrevlutionarywar.net,"). All America had to do was ask another colony or find people who would fight for us ("n2genealogy.com," 2011). Britain’s supplies were also a lot better than ours they could have people make them weapons while we could
Explain how different American and British choices during the war might have changed its outcome.
Analyze why France joined the war on the American side and the importance of this decision to an American victory.
Identify the strengths of the British army at the outset of the Revolutionary War and account for England’s failure to win it quickly.
Show how white women and African Americans hoped for changes in their respective positions in society and analyze the degree to which their conditions actually changed.
By: Dalton Minton
America is very lucky to have one the Revolutionary war. So many things went our way and if those things had not we would have been defeated. Britain was dumb to join the war when they did because it gave America time to prepare for war. They joined late because they didn’t want a war and they wanted to keep the loyalists happy ("americanrevlutionarywar.net,"). Keeping the loyalist happy was huge factor in the war they spent so much time making them happy even after Britain joined the war that it caused them not to fight as well. Another huge factor was the way that information had to travel. It would take two months to get a message to Britain and then another two months to get it sent back to the colonies ("n2genealogy.com," 2011). All the while all it took for Americans to pass a message was a couple weeks give or take depending on distance. Distance between the Colonies and Britain was a big factor. If they had been any closer they would have beaten us. If they were closer they could have gotten supplies to their soldiers or sent more soldiers to areas that needed it. If Britain needed supplies they would need to wait two months ("americanrevlutionarywar.net,"). All America had to do was ask another colony or find people who would fight for us ("n2genealogy.com," 2011). Britain’s supplies were also a lot better than ours they could have people make them weapons while we could
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