first espionage agency‚ simultaneously developing several spy rings and covert operations to assist Washington in meeting rebel war aims. The heroic efforts and sacrifices of America’s earliest spies and the influence they played on the eventual patriot victory cannot be underestimated; underground organizations such
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a book about a girl (Sophia) and what she experiences during the revolutionary war. Sophia’s family were passionate patriots‚ but had to lie because where they lived was controlled by the british. This book gives you a view on what it would be like to be a kid during that event in history. The story begins with Sophia and her mother witnessing the hanging of Nathan Hale‚ a patriot spy. This was very traumatizing to Sophia and‚ had she not seen it‚ she would have never done what she did over the
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to collect valuable information. Women also donned uniforms to fight and helped when they saw a man fall on the battlefield. The Patriots had the “home field advantage” in the war because they had thousands of women supporting them. In war every decision made is crucial to the outcome of that war. With some decisions‚ women helped men. Hannah Arnett convinced patriot men to continue their fight in the Revolutionary War instead of giving up. Hannah barged into a meeting in which she was not invited;
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Chapter 4 Rising Expectations: African Americans and the Struggle For Independence‚ 1763- 1783 The Rising Expectation of the African Americans and the struggle for Independence was a great thing for blacks they started rise up over slavery‚ they made a big impact in the wars‚ and they got the Declaration of Independence from Thomas Jefferson. I. The Crisis of the British Empire 1) The Great struggle. 2) The two empires Great Britain and France. 3) The independence movement and the
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to the US constitution. When America broke free of British rule‚ all the colonies were still participating in slavery and the slave trade‚ and this took some place within the American Revolution. There were African patriots who were promised freedom after‚ and there were also loyalists who fought for the crown. This was in part perpetuated by royal governor Lord Dunmore. Lord Dunmore of Virginia proclaimed that any slave who fought against their rebel master would be freed of their servitude and
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someone could choose not to join the patriot movement in the colonies. What choices did blacks and Indians often make when faced with this crisis. The Crisis of the Revolution‚ 1779-1783. Americans expected to end this fight with Britain rather quickly but wasn’t the case. Loyalists were important key factors in the war for Britain due to the numbers and their willingness to fight. To leave them out of the war would be a foolish tactic and lead to bloodbath. Loyalists disagreed against the Stamp Act
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Maria Alcaraz Hist 1301 Mid-term Exam What were some of the changes that took place in Europe between the years 1000 and 1492‚ and why did those changes lead to European exploration and overseas expansion? From Leif Eriksson being the first European to sail to North America to Marco Polo making his first trip to china were the few things that were going on in the European discovery. During the 1100 the crusades joined the holy war to regain capture of Palestine which was taken away by the
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The United States’ federal government‚ formed at the birth of a nation‚ relies on systems and balances established in the wake of the Revolutionary War‚ during the birth of a nation and was shaped by a handful of influential men. Benjamin Franklin‚ a founding father of this beautiful nation‚ emerging from a brutal rebellion to fabricate a democratic system of government. Around the same time‚ Thomas Jefferson established the Democratic-Republican party‚ a major political party for the time‚ and served
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Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem was 14 paragraphs long. I think he also lit candles‚ if one candle was lit it meant the redcoats were coming by land and if two candle were lit it meant that the redcoats were coming by sea. The candles were how the patriots knew if the redcoats were attacking by sea or by land. Women in the War Women also fought in the war. When I say that women fought in the war you might think they actually fought in the war‚ well some brave women took their
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colonists. About one third of them wanted to remain loyal to the king‚ thus gaining the name “loyalists”‚ and those who supported the fight for Independence were called “patriots”. These patriots stole land from the loyalists‚ or tories in an attempt to drive them out of the area because of their never-dying devotion to their king. The Pennsylvania Packet of 1779 shows that the patriots wanted the loyalists out of the picture (Doc. B). When the war ended in 1783‚ the Treaty of Paris demanded that the
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