WORLD HISTORY

EMERGENCE OF USA

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
American colonists had a long tradition of serving and protecting their communities with ____ Members trained and drilled with the other citizen soldiers.
A
liberty
B
militia
C
dispute
D
debt
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Militias were groups of local men who organized themselves to defend their communities against threats-they suppressed slave rebellions and other local uprisings, fought for territory against Indians, and participated in the French and Indian War.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Americans in the Thirteen Colonies formed independent states that defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), gaining independence from the British Crown and establishing the United States as the first nation-state founded on Enlightenment principles of liberal democracy.

Detailed explanation-3: -Training initially varied in quantity and quality from one regiment to another based on how much experience their leaders had. Congress hired Prussian Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben to direct the army’s training at Valley Forge. He published a training manual containing the regulations for order and discipline in 1779.

Detailed explanation-4: -Clair’s Defeat in the Ohio Valley, Congress passed the Militia Acts of 1792 which authorized the President to call up the Militia in times of invasion or insurrection and provided for the organization of State militias organized into companies, battalions, brigades, and divisions by their States.

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