LAD #4: Rethinking the Revolution

 


List 5 things you learned from reading this article:

1. Both Benjamin Franklin and George Washington actively worked to inflate their reputations and ensure that people in the future would have a positive image of the two leaders. Benjamin Franklin wrote an exaggerated account of his life in his autobiography. George Washington rewrote private correspondence to correct grammar and wording.

2. The Revolutionary War was America's longest declared war, lasting more than eight years. The Revolutionary War joined together an entire nation, this caused the mortality rate to become extremely high.

3. During the Civil War, the most remembered figures were military officials. However, the most remembered figures from the Revolutionary War were political and civil personal. This reflected the fact that where the Civil War is remembered for the war, whereas the Revolutionary War is remembered for the Revolution.

4. None of the paintings depicting the American Revolutionary War actually show any fighting or shots being fired. In this way the paintings show a modified version of the War and do not reflect the true terror and destruction the war caused.

5. Not only did the Revolutionary War inflict many deaths and hardships on the battle, but the Continental Army also suffered many shortages of food and supplies. This caused the colonial soldiers to resort to eating dog carcasses and making a soup out of boiled shoes and melted candles.


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The Spirit of '76: The closest visual depiction to the battles that entailed during the Revolutionary War, still did not show any fighting, or the extent to which the war impacted people.
 
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Thomas Jefferson: Most people remember Thomas Jefferson for writing the Declaration of Independence and being America's third president. However, Jefferson also kept numerous slaves and greatly persecuted Native Americans by enacting the Trail of Tears. This is very similar to how many Revolutionary leaders were also viewed in many different ways.
 

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