HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: 18 Months, Civil Disorder, French Revolution
Document Summary
Building the new republic: americas first 25 years. Reprise: victory in the revolution: a rocky start, creating the constitution, the search for stability: george washington"s presidency, conflicts west and east, origins of political parties, the age of thomas jefferson. Why the british lost the revolution throughout the revolution. Had a strong standing army succeeding in capturing every port city and hold. Question of the loyalists 1/3 1/5 of the population that the british could theoretically help them supress the rebellion. As the war started to drag on people in england started to lose support for keeping the war up as it continued to be more expensive and longer most people opted out. The us with the support of france were able to actually wait out britain. Negotiations opened up in 1781 when the british are defeated at york town the will of the people in parliament collapsing treaty of paris created and signed in.
