was allowed to choose his own cabinet. He replaced Washington ’s cabinet which consisted of Edmund Randolph‚ Alexander Hamilton‚ Henry Knox‚ and William Bradford. Timothy Pickering of Massachusetts was appointed the secretary of state‚ Oliver Welcott of Connecticut became the secretary of treasury‚ James McHenry of Maryland became the secretary of war‚ and Charles Lee of Virginia was appointed the attorney general. It ’s obvious that George Washington had a much better cabinet than Adams did. John Adam
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areas west of the ohio river. The further west the american colonist would go‚ the more it would cost the British. This is money they didn’t have‚ causing Britain to Exert more control over the colonies. Document C was a letter written by George Washington to General Edward Braddock. This document is showing the Pre-French and Indian war relations between the Colonies and Britain. This letter was written in a very positive tone‚ showing that pre-war relations between the two were decent. Document
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in this battle‚ the victory served to make a significant difference in the overall outcome of the American Revolution. There were three major participants at The Battle of Yorktown: Americans‚ British‚ and French. The American General was George Washington‚ the British General was Lord Cornwallis‚ and the French General was Comte de Rochambeau. The French aided the American Continental Army in the American Revolution. The combined forces of the American Continental Army and French Army troops against
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both included slave quarters and gardens‚ and inside both homes included Palladian windows. Each property had an ice house and a greenhouse; however‚ they were constructed differently. Mount Vernon and Monticello are different in many ways; George Washington inherited the property at Mount Vernon by his half brother‚ while it took Thomas Jefferson 40 years for him to design and build his home in Monticello. Thomas Jefferson had many inventions and artifacts in his home‚ including a telescope‚ the
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Whiskey Rebellion The whiskey rebellion written by Thomas P. Slaughter thoroughly described the importance of the event in America’s history‚ not only that but it gives us the opportunity to really comprehend the background of the event and some of the biggest challenges. The book the Whiskey Rebellion frontier epilogue to the American Revolution captures the historical drama and the importance of the whiskey rebellion. The book is divided into three sections context‚ chronology and consequence
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family‚ Dr. Richard Schakburg composed these lyrics. The song is about a little boy and his father visiting one of the army camps of the brigade during the American Revolution. When there‚ the boy saw the men dancing with the ladies‚ he saw Captain Washington giving out orders to his men ‚ and various other things which include the swamping gun which uses a horn of powder to be loaded. In stanza 8 the barrel being talked about with the clubs is a drum which was used to call everyone together. The boy
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Charles Cornwallis was a tremendous part of the American Revolutionary War. Charles Cornwallis was a famous British General. He didn’t start of as the enemy against the Stamp Act he was on the colonists side. He was a famous for fighting against the colonist for his country‚ Great Britain. When the Revolutionary War started he felt patriotic and felt he had to press the Stamp Act to support his country. He was later promoted as a general and he arrived in America in May 1776 to fight in the American
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command of Boston by George Washington. Greene’s success did not stop there‚ two months later he was appointed a major general in the Confederate Army and was placed in charge of its troops stationed in Long Island. Unfortunately‚ Greene grew very ill and did not participate in the Battle of Long Island‚ although he resumed his duties shortly after the battle took place. As major general‚ Greene thought the correct move for the Continental Army was
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Alexander Hamilton was born as a British subject on the island of Nevis in the West Indies on the 11th of January 1755. His father was James Hamilton‚ a Scottish merchant of St. Christopher. His grandfather was Alexander Hamilton‚ of Grange‚ Lanarkshire. One of his great grandfathers was Sir R. Pollock‚ the Laird of Cambuskeith. Hamilton’s mother was Rachael Fawcette Levine‚ of French Huguenot descent. When she was very young‚ she married a Danish proprietor of St. Croix named John Michael Levine
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Dorchester Heights‚ the first Battle of Trenton‚ the Battle of Monmouth‚ and finally the Siege of Yorktown. Following the capture of Fort Ticonderoga by Benedict Arnold‚ the artillery and cannons that had been stored there were brought to General Washington‚ who used this added firepower to set up a fortification on the hills over Dorchester‚ which prior to this point had been a position of strategic value but was too risky to take for fear of British retaliation. With the addition of the cannons and
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