CLEP U.S. History I 029: Military Turning Points and the French Alliance
U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 6 | Lesson 6.3 Britain possessed a professional army, a powerful navy, credit, and an empire. Americans fought over familiar ground and could win by avoiding decisive destruction, but they faced short enlistments, supply shortages, inflation, and political division. Washington’s greatest strategic contribution was often preservation of the army […]
CLEP U.S. History I 028: Common Sense and the Declaration
U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 6 | Lesson 6.2 Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, published in January 1776, attacked monarchy in direct, accessible prose. Paine argued that an island should not rule a continent and that America could gain trade and security through independence. He shifted debate from Parliament’s particular abuses to the legitimacy of […]
