THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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supported the colonists’ fight for independence from Great Britain
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supported the British in their fight against the colonists
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moved across the Appalachian Mountains to escape the war
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voluntarily relocated to a reservation in Oklahoma
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Detailed explanation-1: -With the tensions of war rising in 1775, the Catawba Indians of South Carolina’s back country debated their loyalties. Many Catawba warriors had fought with the British in the French and Indian War, battling the French and other Indians.
Detailed explanation-2: -During the American Revolution, South Carolina was at the center of activity in the South. In fact, more than 200 battles and skirmishes were fought here during the course of the war.
Detailed explanation-3: -Throughout the war, the Catawba people helped the revolutionaries by returning freedom-seeking enslaved people to their enslavers, tracking down loyalists, and serving as scouts. The Catawba people suffered for this decision. The British controlled the area around their reservation for much of 1780 and early 1781.
Detailed explanation-4: -Battle of Cowpens-At the Cowpens, a frontier pastureland, on January 17, 1781, Daniel Morgan led his army of tough Continentals and backwoods militia to a brilliant victory over Banastre Tarleton’s battle-hardened force of British regulars. Located in present-day South Carolina north of Spartanburg.