wed the revolution. I find it hard to believe that those colonists, who were not English, but lived in America really cared whether or not there was a break with England. What makes this hard to believe is that if you take a group of people who are not loyal to England, and than take over ownership of that land, but those people are still there, to them what difference did it make who the next owners would be if it wasn’t going to be the country that they had come from. I did have some prior knowledge of this subject area. I don’t feel that I knew as much about this subject as some of the others we have discussed however I was familiar with different aspects of it. The information that I had prior knowledge of was relatively accurate. It wasn’t always complete but what I had been taught was accurate. I was familiar with Washington’s background and how he had made a vast array of mistakes, including many that resulted in military losses during the French and Indian War and The American Revolution. I did not know about Washington fighting with Braddock and bravely leading the British Army in retreat. I essentially had learned about many of the battles Washington had fought in without really learning about what Washington was able to learn and how he developed into a man and leader. I was unfamiliar with how deeply Washington desired to gain a British commission, and I really didn’t know why he had not been able to achieve this. I had learned about the various reasons that the colonists and Britain felt led to war, but I was relatively unaware of how this affected the American Indians or the slaves and Africans. I knew about the whole idea that slaves were able to purchase their freedom, and sometimes that of their family. What I hadn’t previously understood was how they saved the money to do this and how were they able to keep track of their family. If I remember correctly from when we lea...
