HIST 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Phillis Wheatley, Republican Motherhood, Party System
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It is the economical center: allowed redcoats to be quartered in colonists" homes. Daughters of liberty: esther de berdt. Groups of women sew uniforms for continental army: leaders of economic boycotts. Patrick henry: give me liberty, or give me death , 1775, i am not a virginian, but an american. No representation: there is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. Shot heard round the world: started things into motion, can"t go back. Ben franklin: representative of americas shift from english to individual, he cared the most about being english. Battle of saratoga: brings france onto the side of the colonists, oct 17, 1777. Oct 19, 1781: cornwallis surrenders at yorktown, essentially the end of fighting between england and the colonists. Over half of the signitories of the declaration of independence were college educated: only 1% of americans had that, wealthy, put their necks on the line.
