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Reading Questions: Unit Three: The Fight for Independence

Use your own words to answer these questions.

1.	List the reasons why the American moderates supporting compromise with Britain lost support in the period of May, 1175 to January, 1776. (p. 318-322)
2.	How did the radicals who desired independence move the Second Continental Congress towards doing so? (p. 326 – 330)
3.	What evidence was there that the population throughout the colonies was moving towards supporting independence? (p. 333-334)
4.	How did the changes that the Congress made in the Declaration change it? (p. 334 – 338)
5.	What did Jefferson originally pen about slavery in the Declaration? (p. 338 -339)
6.	What were the concerns of France about helping the Americans (p. 402-405)
7.	What actions did Franklin take to gain French help and what was in the final treaty? (p. 409-411)
8.	What were the mistakes that Britain had made in how it was fighting the war? ( p. 411-412)
9.	What were the strategic questions that Britain faced with the entry of France into the war and what decisions did they make? (p. 412-417)
10.	Summarize the conditions at Valley Forge and the reasons why the conditions at Valley Forge were so poor. (p. 417 – 423)
11.	How was the Baron von Steuben able to transform the army? (p. 423 – 426)
12.	Summarize or bullet-point the role of Indians in the War. (572-576)
13.	Identify George Rogers Clark and Joseph Brant. (p. 576-577)
14.	In the early days of the war, what was the role of the American navy? (p. 534 – 537)
15.	What was the impact that John Paul Jones had on the war? What happened in the battle of the Serapis and the Bonhomme Richard? (p. 538-543)
16.	Summarize (a bullet point list is fine) the information on why men fought. (p. 502 – 506)
17.	How does the book explain why some men ran and some men stayed and fought in the heat of battle? (p. 506 – 510)
18.	How were the British different in how they fought on the battlefield? (p. 511)
19.	Summarize the qualities of the Continentals after Valley Forge. (p. 512 – 515)
20.	What was life like for the new recruit? (p. 516 – 517)
21.	What were the problems that the Americans faced in supplying the army and what mistakes did the Congress make? (p. 517 - 525)
22.	What were the medical conditions in the armies? (p. 525 – 534)
23.	Read the article on enlistment by Mark Lender and make a list of the reasons why he says that men enlisted in the army. Summarize the changes in those reasons as the war went on.