| | Quizzing yourself in this manner will both improve your test-taking skills, and identify for yourself what you need to study more. Use the short descriptions for these terms that will be handed out in class (and which is available by email - contact me if you need a copy), or refer back to the lectures and the model answers. | | Quizzing yourself in this manner will both improve your test-taking skills, and identify for yourself what you need to study more. Use the short descriptions for these terms that will be handed out in class (and which is available by email - contact me if you need a copy), or refer back to the lectures and the model answers. |
| − | Our first through sixth lectures should have covered all these terms, except the Newburgh Address (or Conspiracy). That was a plot among officers of the Continental Army (the Patriots fighting for the Americans in the Revolutionary War) to hold a military coup and establish martial law in order to obtain back pay that was owed to them for their military service. The plot came to a climax when they angrily met on March 15, 1783, and were surprised by an unexpected appearance by General George Washington. He gave a short speech, but the officers were still still angry, and lacking in the respect that they usually gave to their esteemed leader. Washington then pulled a letter from his pocket from a member of Second Continental Congress. But Washington was unable to read the letter without his reading glasses, and in a miraculous moment of sincere emotion, declared, "Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country." Many of the officers were suddenly moved to tears in the realization that Washington, like themselves, had sacrificed much for the country. The officers left satisfied. | + | Our first through sixth lectures should have covered all these terms, except they did miss the Newburgh Address (or Conspiracy). That was a plot among officers of the Continental Army (the Patriots fighting for the Americans in the Revolutionary War) to hold a military coup and establish martial law in order to obtain back pay that was owed to them for their military service. The plot came to a climax when they angrily met on March 15, 1783, and were surprised by an unexpected appearance by General George Washington. He gave a short speech, but the officers were still still angry, and lacking in the respect that they usually gave to their esteemed leader. Washington then pulled a letter from his pocket from a member of Second Continental Congress. But Washington was unable to read the letter without his reading glasses, and in a miraculous moment of sincere emotion, declared, "Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country." Many of the officers were suddenly moved to tears in the realization that Washington, like themselves, had sacrificed much for the country. The officers left satisfied. |