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CHAPTER 6

SECURING INDEPENDENCE, DEFINING NATIONHOOD,
1776–1788

The Prospects of War

Loyalists and Other British Sympathizers

The Opposing Sides

War and Peace, 1776–1783

Shifting Fortunes in the North, 1776–1778

The War in the North, 1775–1778

The War in the West, 1776 –1782

Victory in the South

The War in the South, 1778–1781

Peace at Last,
1782–1783

The Revolution and Social Change

Egalitarianism Among White Males

White Women in Wartime

A Revolution for Black Americans

Native Americans and the Revolution

From Colonies to States

Formalizing a Confederation, 1776–1781

Finance,Trade, and the Economy, 1781–1786

The Confederation and the West, 1785–1787

State Claims to Western Lands, and
State Cessions to the Federal Government, 1782–1802

The Northwest Territory, 1785–1787

Toward a New Constitution, 1786–1788

Shays’s Rebellion, 1786–1787

The Philadelphia Convention, 1787

The Struggle over Ratification, 1787–1788

Federalist and Anti-federalist Strongholds, 1787–1790