Mg14 5 Column Fill

Multi-Perspective Revolution 5-Column Chart — large unit-wide chart used in Lesson 19. COLUMNS: (1) PATRIOTS — the 40–45% of colonists who supported independence by 1776 (e.g., John Adams, Sam Adams, Patrick Henry, George Washington as commander, 5,000+ Black soldiers in Continental Army including Salem Poor / Peter Salem / James Forten / 1st Rhode Island Regiment which was 1/3 Black and Indigenous, Mercy Otis Warren, Sybil Ludington, Deborah Sampson, Crispus Attucks legacy); (2) LOYALISTS — the 15–20% who remained loyal to Britain (e.g., Joseph Galloway, Jonathan Boucher, Ann Hulton, ~20,000 enslaved African Americans who fled under Dunmore's Proclamation 1775, most Iroquois Confederacy nations especially Mohawk under Thayendanegea / Joseph Brant); (3) NEUTRALS — the 35–40% who sought to stay out of the conflict (e.g., Quakers in Pennsylvania, many German Pietists, many enslaved people not given a choice, many Indigenous nations who tried to remain outside the Anglo-American conflict); (4) INDIGENOUS NATIONS SPLIT — Iroquois Confederacy split with Mohawk/Onondaga/Cayuga/Seneca with British and Oneida/Tuscarora with Patriots; Cherokee mostly with British; Catawba mostly with Patriots; (5) FRENCH ALLIES — the 1778 Franco-American Treaty (Benjamin Franklin in Paris) brought decisive French naval power at Yorktown 1781 (Comte de Rochambeau, Comte de Grasse, Marquis de Lafayette), plus Spanish entry 1779 (Bernardo de Gálvez), plus 1,500+ Native American allies on the French side at Yorktown including Catawba and Lenape scouts. Banner: 'The Revolution was not a single story. It was a wartime moment of choice — and many people did not have any choice at all.' Style: clean 5-column chart.