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Some reasons for the failure of British troops in the South are as follows:
- The British had to divert troops to defend gulf coast forts under Spanish attack.
- Rebels used guerrilla warfare, while the British were used to a more forthright style of war.
- The British overestimated the loyalist faction.
- The British got too far away from their fleet and had no reliable supply lines.
novanet : to make a surprise attack on German mercenaries in trenton, new jersey
parliament allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to colonists.
NovaNet Answer: to arrest colonial leaders in hiding there.
the french fleet arrived at the right moment to blockade a British escape
Native Americans attacked colonial settlements, and settlers killed neutral Native Americans.
Each colony had two-house legislature, which mirrored the government of Britain.
One reason is that Southern whites feared that freed blacks would seek revenge for their past treatment as slaves.
Other reasons were:
1) freed blacks represented competition for white industries and professions
2) freed blacks represented political opposition (as they would again in 1865)
Manumission (which is simply the voluntary freeing of slaves) was unwelcome in the South because they felt that slaves would be more likely to try to escape if they had examples of successful freedmen. Another was that freed slaves might have legal status to hold previous owners responsible for maltreatment or injury. The concept of being "born into slavery" was seen as conferring a lifelong status by slaveholders.
the french had excepted to control the negotiation
