Internal And External Conflicts In Independence Hall

The Revolutionary war was a time where the Patriots broke away from the British. In Chains by Laurie Haldane Anderson,and in Charles kuralt's “Independence Hall” both Isabel and the patriots faced obstacle before attaining their goals. Some of the conflicts they faced similar and others were different. In Chains and “Independence Hall”, there were external and internal obstacles.

Isabel had faced many internal and external conflicts in Chains. One internal conflict Isabel faced was when Curzon asked Isabel to be a spy for the patriots “He stopped beside a barricade. The brim of his hat cast his face in shadow. ‘You might hear things. At the Lockton house.’ ‘What kind of things?’ ‘Useful things. Things that might help you get to that lawyer and your freedom.’”(pg 39).If she did she would get help to be free. Isabel’s slave owners were loyalist and if your slave owner was a loyalist so are you. But if she disobeyed that rule and spy on them than her and
One internal conflict they faced was when the patriots weren't sure whether they wanted the Declaration of independence or not. For example “ Declaring our independence at a time like this is like burning down our house before we have another”(lines 52-54) or people thought this “I have crossed the Rubicon. All that I have, all that I am, all that I hope for in this life, I stake on our cause” (lines 68-70). John Dickson was thinking the Declaration will not have a positive effect. On the other hand John Adams is saying that there is no turning back, that we have decided are freedom long ago.Some patriots want the Declaration and others are unsure. There is also an external conflict. The British. The British were a strong army and navy and the patriots were declaring independence from them. Since the patriots were broke away from the british, they didn’t know what the british were going to do. Making them an obstacle for the Patriots to