163 The American Revolution in North America
Ben Franklin's World
Liz Covart
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2017
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
When we think about North America during the American Revolution, most of our brains show us images of eastern Canada and the thirteen British American colonies that waged a revolution and war for independence against Great Britain.
But what about the rest of the North American continent? What about the areas that we know today as the midwest, the Great Plains, the southwest, the west, and the Pacific Northwest? What about Alaska? What went on in these areas during the American Revolution?
What did the American Revolution look like through the eyes of Native American peoples?
In this episode of the Doing History: To the Revolution series, we explore what the American Revolution looked like within the larger context of North American history with historians Claudio Saunt and Alyssa Mt. Pleasant.
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| 1:16.0 | But what about the rest of the North American continent? |
| 1:20.0 | What about Alaska? |
| 1:25.0 | Alaska? |
| 1:29.0 | What about Alaska? What went on in these other areas of North America? |
| 1:32.0 | While the 13 British-American colonies waged the revolution and fight for independence. |
| 1:37.0 | And for that matter, what did the American Revolution look like through the eyes of Native Americans. |
| 1:43.0 | Did the revolution in its war in the independent United States they produced impact them? |
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