1. Guided Reading Activity 6-1
The American Revolution

2. Americans who supported independence
Strongest navy in the world, experienced well trained army, wealth, larger population
Lacked a regular army & navy, lacked military experience, lacked weapons and ammunition, not all colonists wanted independence

3. 4. Americans who remained loyal to Great Britain.
5. Americans knew the land and fought with determination to protect it.
6. Hessians were fighting for money, Patriots were fighting for freedom
7. They were both women who fought with Patriot forces

4. 8. Nathan Hale
9. Thomas Paine
10. To inspire them to continue the fight
11. White southerners were afraid that if enslaved African Americans had guns they would revolt.
12. Christmas night, 1776
13. Albany, New York
14. General John Burgoyne