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Side Notes for Backing up Points in American WOI Essays
Which Native American confederation of tribes is said to have inspired Benjamin Franklin to theorise about a United Confederation of States?
Which colonial city was the second largest in the British Empire in the mid-1700s?
How did the French and Indian War lay the foundations for revolution?
Which prominent Colonial leaders came to prominence during the French and Indian War?
Which famous trade cycle was one of America's sources of income?
What made Boston such a focal point of tension?
Who were Whigs and Tories?
What popular 'punishment' was favoured by mobs as public humiliation and torment?
What was famously spoken by Patrick Henry, illustrating the idea of the Continental Congress' unity?
Who had the more battle-tested soldiers at the outbreak of war?
Which two important leaders of the Patriots were nearly caught at Lexington?
Which famous Colonial general turned Loyalist and tried to betray strategic fort West Point into British hands?
At what place were Hessians, led by Colonel Johann Rall, defeated by George Washington?
Which outspoken moderate spoke out against independence, illustrating the fact that not all Americans were firmly decided on splitting away?
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
How common was it for troops to change sides?
What was Washington's problem at Morristown?
Who created a uniform system of training and discipline for the Continental Army?
Why did British strategists believe that the South was a strategically important point?
Which general lobbied to replace Washington along with a 'cabal' of supporters and was later dishonoured in the South?
Which famous figure spent a large amount of the war in France as one of several American diplomats?
Who had the stronger navy, Britain or France?
Who was the main French leader during the war?
Who was the 'Father of the American Navy'?
What did the British public think about the Colonial War?
How were soldiers paid?
What foodstuffs were hard to acquire?
Other than fighting, what was the main problem facing the American revolution?
Who wrote the only major Loyalist history of the revolution?
