THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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There were fewer Continental soldiers to fight there.
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They planned to use Loyalist support to take control there.
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They finished taking control of the northern and middle states already.
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There were more ports, which allowed for easier transportation of the army.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why did the British think they would experience more success in the southern states later in the American Revolution? There were fewer Continental soldiers to fight there.
Detailed explanation-2: -During the Revolutionary War, Britain assumed that the Southern colonies would aid their cause. This assumption relied on the large number of Tories, ethnicity, the presence of slavery and the benefit gained from the presence of British troops.
Detailed explanation-3: -The British southern strategy was to move the military theater to the southern colonies where there were more Loyalist colonists. Slaves and Indian allies, the British hoped, would also swell their ranks. This strategy worked at first, allowing the British to take Charleston.
Detailed explanation-4: -Cornwallis’s plan to subjugate the South involved turning control of one state after another to loyalists. The strategy failed, however, when patriot militiamen and even civilians attacked and gained control of loyalist strongholds left behind by Cornwallis’s main army.
Detailed explanation-5: -Their soldiers were well equipped, well disciplined, well paid, and well fed. The British navy dominated the seas. Funds were much more easily raised by the Empire than by the Continental Congress. Some of those funds were used to hire Hessian mercenaries to fight the Americans.