Lesson 8: General Washington's Worst Ordeal 
Reading Assignment: The Making of America, pages 87-108 

Pre-lesson questions for homework study and review: 

1. How did American and British forces meet at Brandywine? Who won? (Pages 87-88) 

2. Explain how more experienced officers and better reconnaissance might have ended the war at Germantown. (89) 

3. Describe the misery endured by the America troops at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777. (90-92) 

4. What great opportunity did General Washington see as the British troops left Philadelphia? Tell how the traitorous acts of Charles Lee at Monmouth prevented an early end to the war. (92-93) 

5. What dastardly technique did the British War Office engage in on the American frontier? Who was sent to deal with these terrorist operations? (94-95) 

6. What event in 1779 complicated Britain's efforts to make war on the United States? (95) 

7. Describe the virtual abandonment of Washington by leaders of the Confederation while American forces suffered at Morristown in 1779-80. (96) 

8. Tell how General Horatio Gates became commander of the American southern forces, and describe his cowardly action at Camden. (97-99) 

9. What was the reason Benedict Arnold betrayed the American cause? (99) 

10. What boast did British Major Ferguson make atop King's Mountain that proved to be disastrous? (100) 

11. Explain what feelings existed in early 1781 that almost caused the loss of the entire struggle for independence. (101) 

12. Tell of the events that brought American forces to Yorktown, and of the miraculous occurrence that resulted in the surrender of the British. (102-4) 

13. Outline the horrifying contents of the letter from Colonel Lewis Nicola to General George Washington in May 1782. What was Washington's reply? (105-6) 

14. Tell about Washington's momentous speech in March 1783 in response to a call for military revolt against the government. (106) 

15. What did Washington feel was desperately needed at this time? How and when did the Revolutionary War formally end? (106-8) 



Lesson 9: The Need for a Miracle 

Reading Assignment: The Making Of America, pages 111-131 

Pre-lesson questions for homework study and review: 

1. Even though the Americans had won their liberty, there was something they had not learned to do that was vital to their national preservation. What was it? (page 111) 

2. Who expected the United States to collapse? (112-13) 

3. Describe the restlessness of American military units after the war. (113-14) 

4. How did depression, taxes, and rioting bring the American experiment to the brink of disaster? (114- 15) 

5. Describe the fiscal policies that cranked up the engines of inflation during this period. (116-17) 

6. Describe the agony that George Washington expressed over the state of the nation just months before the Constitutional Convention. (118) 

7. Read through the statements of the founders as they described the American scene at that time. Which points particularly impress you? (118-31) 

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