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What were the military strategies and challenges for both the American and British forces |
The two biggest advantages for the Americans for the fact that we had a cause and we had home-field advantage. the British advantages were they had a trained army they have supplies they had a government and they had a Navy. their downfalls were they did not know the lay of the land they and didn't have a reason to be fighting. The Americans had a cause they had home-field advantage and they have support from other countries. The downfalls were they did not have a trained army they only used to Melissa and their supplies came from wherever they can find them not everybody had the same kind of gun the same size Barrel and they didn't have a government and they didn't have the Navy. |
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What were the war's major turning points? |
The first major turning point was when the British were told to go easy on Washington's forces. Washington kept moving from Long Island to Manhattan to Harlem to Delaware to Pennsylvania had the British not falling back when the Americans were retreating and had kept on they would have defeated the Americans in the war would have been over. The second major turning point was when Washington made the attack in Trenton on Christmas Day this proved that he was not following the traditional European rules of War since we're was not typically but during the winter months. The third major turning point was when there was a lack of communication between the British Clinton went to Philly instead of meeting everyone at Saratoga and a three-pronged attack turned into a 1 pronged attack and the British were defeated. The fourth and final turning point of the Revolutionary War was coming Cornwallis was left stranded in New York town by the British the French that started supporting the Americans and had an easy the French navy was bigger and was able to easily defeat the British. |
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What were the main issues in the debate over the ratification of the Constitution? |
Anti-Federalists believe that too much power was being given to the federal government for the Federalists promised that if they voted to ratify the Constitution they would make amendments. The better of held true to their word and as soon as the Constitution was ratified almost immediately ten amendments were put into place that are currently known as the Bill of Rights. |
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What were the achievements of the Confederation government? |
They set up a system of checks and balances using the Virginia Plan where they set up the executive and Judiciary branch of the president would not have all the power. They also came up with the Three-Fifths Compromise to help quell the debate about slavery. They also instituted a two-thirds vote to override any veto of the president. And they came up with the Great Compromise where two senators from each state would be in place and the House of Representatives would be based on population so that the bigger States felt like they had more vote but every state was also considered equally. |
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Why did the delegates to the Constitutional Convention draft a completely new constitution? |
This is because they knew that there were several issues with the Articles of Confederation and that it needed to be a living document so that there would be change with the times and so that it would always stay current and up-to-date with the needs of the country. |
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How important was the issue of slavery in the Constitution and what were the compromises addressing it? |
Slavery was a big issue because the South wanted to claim that all the slaves were property and the North claim that they were people. The theory was that if the slaves were property they should be taxed but if they were people they needed to be treated better. The compromise was a three-phase compromise each slave was counted as three-fifths of a person. So there are a thousand slaves 600 of them would be considered people and 400 of them would be considered property. The South would benefit from the 600 people when it came to the House of Representatives and how many representatives they had but they would also be taxed on the 400 so that they were not excluded from having to pay taxes on their so-called property. |
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What is Hamilton's vision of the new Republic and how did he propose to address it? |
His first business was to this figure out how much debt we were really in to do so he offered face value for all of the bonds that were distributed during wartime he replaces bonds with new bonds that accrued interest. He also took all the state that in turn it into federal debt created taxes on Whiskey which caused the Rebellion yes I propose that we created a national mint and the bank of United States the bank of the United States manage National money it was a secure place for the government money and wasn't charged of loans to both the federal government and other banks for economic growth. They also propose that we start manufacturing your own good so that we wouldn't have to spend money importing goods from other countries creating more debt. |
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How did European Affairs complicate the internal political and diplomatic problems of the new country? |
During the Revolutionary War France created an alliance with the American colonies in 1778 during the French Revolution Washington violated the terms of the 1778 treaty with France by not helping them. Because of this brand started seizing both British and American ships starting an undeclared war. |
