The American Promise: A History of the United States Fourth Edition Roark • Johnson • Cohen • Stage • Hartmann • Lawson The American Promise: A History of the United States Fourth Edition CHAPTER 7 The War for America 1775–1783 Copyright © 2009 by Bedford/St. Martin’s
The Second Continental Congress Assuming Political and Military Authority Pursuing Both War and Peace Thomas Paine, Abigail Adams, and the Case for Independence The Declaration of Independence
The First Year of War, 1775–1776 The American Military Forces The British Strategy Quebec, New York, and New Jersey
The Home Front Patriotism at the Local Level The Loyalists Who Is a Traitor? Financial Instability and Corruption
The Campaigns of 1777–1779: The North and West Burgoyne’s Army and the Battle of Saratoga The War in the West: Indian Country The French Alliance
The Southern Strategy and the End of the War Georgia and South Carolina The Other Southern War: Guerrillas Surrender at Yorktown The Losers and the Winners
Chapter 7 The War for America: 1775–1783 Map 7.1 The War in the North, 1775–1778 (p. 226) Map 7.2 Loyalist Strength and Rebel Support (p. 232) Map 7.3 The Indian War in the West, 1777–1782 (p. 240) Map 7.4 The War in the South, 1780–1781 (p. 242) Global Comparison How Tall Were Eighteenth-Century Men on Average? (p. 224) Death of Jane McCrea (p. 238) “The Ballance of Power,” 1780 (p. 245)