REVOLUTIONARY WAR.....A New
Nation 1775 - 1783
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At this time in America there was no president. George Washington did not become President until 1789 and the first official flag was reputedly made by Betsy Ross in 1776.
No one event alone caused this war. The American view was that they should have full Democratic rights, and the British view was the American Colonies were to be used in whatever way that best suited Great
Britain.
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All of these listed items from 1754 to 1774
contributed to the war:
| (1) French & Indian War |
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(2) British Imposed New Taxes |
| (3) Stamp Act |
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(4) Sons of Liberty Created |
| (5) Townshend Acts Imposed
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(6) Colonists Boycott |
| (7) British Troops land in Boston |
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(8) Boston Massacre |
| (9) Townshend Act Repealed |
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(10) Boston Tea Party |
| (11) Coercive Acts Imposed |
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(12) First Continental Congress
Meets |
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VALLEY FORGE SOLDIERS
Peter Peavey born Andover MA - died Greenfield NH served here.
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On the day after Christmas, 1777 the soldiers waded through snow halfway to their knees. Soon it was red from their feet. This was the day General Washington reported to Congress that Elkanah Watson had
declared that the "poor soldiers were half starved, for weeks. Men had died by the score from starvation." "Sometimes", testified Chief Justice Marshall, who spent the winter at Valley Forge, "soldiers were absolutely without food." Such was the indescribable, suffering, horror and inhumanity of Valley Forge.
(source, excerpts from: History of United States by Ridpath 1877)
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