Overlooked Southern Contributions in the American Revolution

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1. The Purpose of the article, Some Reflections on the South in the American Revolution, is to look at the role of the southern colonies in the American Revolution. Don Higginbotham, the author of this academic essay, is trying to say that the focus of the American Revolution mostly has been on the northern colonies while the South has been overlooked. This article starts with ‘The subject of the south in the American Revolution was once freighted with emotion and controversy’ and ‘Were northemers and southemers of the Revolutionary era also very sensitive to sectional matters and to their respective contributions to the war's outcome?’, the brief of the article, which gives the main idea of what Don Higginbotham is trying to say and to prove …show more content…

The key concepts that are needed to understand the material in this article are the American Revolution and the relationship between the north and the south in the American Revolution. During his article, he provides some sentences summarized to explain, which helps me to understand some of the materials. Even though he gives me a simple brief, it’s not enough to explain other historical events that are mentioned in this article. I had to look some people and events. In order to understand the material of the article, I’m expected to have the knowledge of political events, relationships, parties, and people. I needed to know about, for instance, what Constitutional Convention was and who Charles Pinckney was, and what he did in order to understand what the author wanted to say. 4. If Don Higginbotham’s argument or line of reasoning is true, it means that South Carolinians and Georgians believed that the preservation of slavery would be completed and they could find out about independence later. “Perhaps Pinckney was close to the truth about free white males in the late eighteenth century. If so, it was a condition worth preserving and enlarging”, the last paragraph of this article, explains what he is trying to prove in the article. Furthermore, this paragraph supports his idea, if his argument is

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