|
- The first man
shot in the Boston Massacre was a black man named Crispus Attucks.
- About 5,000
African American men and boys fought in the war.
- George
Washington rarely had even 15,000 men under his command at a time.
- Washington did
not receive pay for his military service.
- Benjamin
Franklin was able to get foreign support from France, Spain and the
Netherlands, which helped weaken the British.
- British
soldiers called redcoats because of the color of their uniforms.
- The largest
city in America in 1775 was Philadelphia.
- Boston and New
York were the next largest cities.
- Farming was the
main occupation in the colonies.
- Only a small
amount of people lived in the cities.
- About one third
of the colonial people supported the king and thought of themselves as
Loyalists.
- About 100,000
Loyalists fled to Canada, England, and the Bahamas.
- Even though
Cornwallis surrendered to the Americans at Yorktown in 1781, the
fighting lasted for two more years until the Treaty of Paris was signed
in 1783.
|