THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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a loyalist
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a patriot
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Patrick Henry used the phrase in his last public speech, given in March 1799, in which he denounced The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions. Clasping his hands and swaying unsteadily, Henry declaimed, “Let us trust God, and our better judgment to set us right hereafter. United we stand, divided we fall.
Detailed explanation-2: -Possible meaning: If we work together we can be successful. If we fight each other we will fail.
Detailed explanation-3: -“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved-I do not expect the house to fall-but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Flag of Our Union by George Pope Morris The Flag of Our Union, a poem written by poet and journalist George Pope Morris in 1853, uses the phrase “United we stand, divided we fall” in the following verse: “A song for our banner!