EMERGENCE OF USA
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT
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300
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11, 000
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5, 000
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4, 500
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Detailed explanation-1: -5, 000 black men served in the Continental Army, and hundreds more served on the sea. Had George Washington been less ambivalent, more blacks might have participated on the Patriot side than with the Loyalists.
Detailed explanation-2: -Some 1.2 million Black men served in the U.S. military during the war, but they were often treated as second-class citizens. When the Selective Training and Service Act became the nation’s first peacetime draft law in September 1940, civil rights leaders pressured President Franklin D.
Detailed explanation-3: -Blacks fought in provincial regiments prior to the war, and roughly 5, 000 African American soldiers and sailors, free and slave, served the Revolutionary cause.
Detailed explanation-4: -For example, African Americans make up 16.8 percent of the military but only 12.4 percent of the U.S. population.
Detailed explanation-5: -More than 380, 000 African Americans served in the Army during World War I, according to the National Archives. Approximately 200, 000 of these were sent to Europe.