Founding Myths (65 page)

Constitutional Convention.
See
Federal Convention (1787)

Continental Army,
101–20
; black soldiers,
206–8
,
212–13
,
217
,
374n8
,
374–75n14
; civilians in,
102–3
; Hard Winter at Morristown,
107–13
,
353n36
; hardships,
101–7
,
354n39
; mutinies and other resistance,
104–7
; post-Yorktown,
243–49
; recruitment,
102–3
; Sullivan campaign against Iroquois,
265–66
,
272–375
,
388n23
,
389n36
; Washington and,
70
,
104–14
,
206–8
,
217
,
243–49
,
307
,
354n39
,
397–98n13
; winter at Valley Forge,
91–120
.
See also
Valley Forge, winter at

Continental Congress,
168–70
; John Adams and,
168–70
; Samuel Adams and,
41
,
336n25
; and Continental Army,
102–3
,
113–16
,
206–8
,
212–13
,
217
; and Declaration of Independence,
129–34
,
169–70
,
301–2
,
390n4
,
397n12
; First,
25
,
37–38
,
78
,
336n25
; Fourth of July celebrations,
281–82
,
397n12
; and Massachusetts “independency” movement,
37–38
,
85
; Second,
125
; slavery question,
206–8
,
217
,
365n8
; and Sullivan campaign against Iroquois,
265–66
,
272
; on westward expansion and land ordinances,
275–77

Coombe, Thomas,
352n21

Cooper, William,
44

Copley, John Singleton,
10
,
28

Corbin, Margaret,
54
,
64–65
,
67
,
69
.
See also
Pitcher, Molly

Cornwallis, General,
226
; defeat and surrender at Yorktown,
242
,
243
,
246
,
256
,
260

Cowpens, Battle of,
208
,
226

Creek Indians,
269–70

Cuba,
179

Currier, Nathaniel,
50
,
60
,
242

Custis, George Washington Parke,
57–58
,
342n21

Daniels, Bruce,
372n27

Danvers, Massachusetts,
84

Darley, Felix Octavius Carr,
100
,
224

Darrah, Lydia,
14

Dartmouth, Lord,
81
,
92

Daughters of the American Revolution,
64–65
,
294–95

Daughters of the Colonial Wars,
236

David and Goliath tales,
75–77

Davis, Solomon,
44

Dawes, Charles,
22

Dawes, William,
11
,
15
,
18
,
20
,
21–24
,
312–13
,
332n31
,
333n33
,
333n35
,
395n2

The Day the American Revolution Began
(Hallahan),
34

Dayton, Jonathan,
148

de Kalb, Johann,
110

De Pauw, Linda Grant,
66

The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill
(Trumbull painting),
27–29
,
200–201

deaths of Revolutionary War: battlefield,
101
,
191–92
,
197
,
351n2
,
354n37
; disease,
113
,
191
,
354n37
; post-Yorktown,
248–49
; Valley Forge winter,
101
,
113
; at Yorktown,
248

Declaration of Independence,
123–39
; Adams and,
133–34
,
313
,
358n31
,
359n32
; authorship issues,
123–25
,
126–29
,
131–34
; commemorations,
130
,
132
,
186
,
281–82
,
390n4
; committee drafting,
129–34
,
313
,
358n31
; Continental Congress and,
129–34
,
169–70
,
301–2
; early reception,
129–34
; equality notions,
130–31
,
134–37
,
359n40
; and fear of domestic insurrections,
183
; historians and,
123–25
,
130
,
132
,
289–90
; Jefferson and,
122
,
123–39
,
313
,
356n8
,
358n24
,
359n32
,
397n12
; Lincoln and,
130–31
,
134–37
,
359n40
; and local declarations,
125–29
,
130
,
137
,
169
,
313–14
,
356n14
,
357n15
; and Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights,
124
,
125–29
,
130–31
,
313
,
359n40
; and popular sovereignty,
125
; signers and signing,
133
,
143
,
156
,
159–60
,
282–83
,
289–90
,
390nn4–6
,
397n12
; signing event,
281–82
,
390nn4–5
; textbooks,
137
,
313
,
320

Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776
(Trumbull painting),
3
,
329n2

declarations of independence, local,
125–29
,
130
,
137
,
169
,
313–14
,
356n14
,
357n15

Delaware and the Great Compromise,
144–50

Delaware Indians,
266–67

Democrat-Republican party,
131–32

Devens, Richard,
18

Devlin, Dean,
206

Dickinson, John,
145
,
147
,
397n12

Dictionary of American Biography (DAB)
,
65

“Dirty Kate,”
54

disease and Revolutionary War deaths,
113
,
191
,
354n37

document-based learning and document-based questions (DBQs),
319–23
,
398n16
,
399n19

Domonech, Augustina,
56

Doolittle, Amos,
74

Douglas, Stephen A.,
130
,
134

Drayton, William H.,
268

Du Bois, W. E. B.,
213–14

Dunmore, Lord: proclamation of freedom to slaves,
205
,
211
,
212–13
,
216–18
; and Virginia uprising,
181–84

Durivage, Francis Alexander,
57

Earl, Ralph,
74

East India Company,
255

Edes, Benjamin,
46

education, public.
See
history education and curricula
;
history textbooks

Eggleston, Edward,
211–12

electoral college,
149–50
,
363n21

Ellery, William,
160

Ellis, Joseph: on Abigail Adams,
340n2
; and the Founders,
161–63
,
164–66
,
365n8
; on Jefferson and the Declaration,
124

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
76–77
,
87–88
,
97–98

empire, war of.
See
global context of the American Revolution

Epic Journeys of Freedom
(Pybus),
221

Fallen Timbers,
271

Faulkner, Barry,
140

Federal Convention (1787),
131
,
141–55
; delegates,
141–44
,
159–60
,
289–90
; electoral college and presidential selection method,
149–50
; Madison's notes,
144
,
155
,
361n5
,
363n20
; navigation laws,
153
,
363n25
; representation and the Great Compromise debates,
144–50
,
361n7
,
362n14
,
362n17
,
363n20
; slave importation debate,
151–53
,
369n16
; slavery and three-fifths compromise,
150–53
,
363n22
; textbooks,
144
.
See also
Constitution, U.S.

The Federalist Papers,
131
,
141

Federalists,
131–32
,
143
,
284
,
358n23

Ferling, John,
170
,
367n22

Few, William,
160

First Continental Congress,
25
,
37–38
,
78
,
336n25
.
See also
Continental Congress

Fischer, David Hackett,
17–18
,
22
,
76
,
95–96
,
236

Fisher, Sydney,
288
,
366n16
,
392n25

Fiske, John,
22
,
211
,
235
,
294

Fleming, Thomas,
123
,
340n2
,
380n26
; on brutality of the Revolutionary War,
237
; on Bunker Hill and Putnam,
372n27

Florida,
247–51
,
250

Forbes, Esther,
22

Force, Peter,
293

Fort Clinton,
54
,
70
,
346n48

Fort Mifflin,
193

Fort Washington,
54
,
65
,
70
,
345n33

Fort William and Mary,
86–87

Forten, James,
217
,
221

Founders,
157–71
,
305
; early candidates,
41
,
158–60
,
337n42
; framers and so-called “signers” of the Declaration,
133
,
143
,
156
,
159–60
,
289–90
,
390n5
,
397n12
; as “greatest generation,”
160–64
,
364nn4–5
,
364n7
; historians on,
41
,
160–71
,
289–90
,
364n4
; and popular sovereignty,
165–70
; slaveholders,
134–37
,
151–53
,
204
,
207–8
,
215–17
,
221–23

Founding Brothers
(Ellis),
161
,
340n2
,
365n8

Fourth of July celebrations,
2
,
130
,
280
,
281–86
,
293–94
,
397n12

Fowle, Joshua,
13

Fowler, William,
372n27

Fradin, Dennis,
27

France and the American Revolution,
244–45
,
247
,
249–56
,
261

Franklin, Benjamin,
313
; as Founding

Father,
158
,
159–60
,
161
,
221
; Great Compromise debates,
146

Franklin, John Hope,
214

Frederick County, Maryland,
128–29

Frederick the Great,
190

Fredericksburg, Virginia,
181–82

Free Dictionary (Internet),
317

Freemasons,
13
,
46

French and Indian War,
158
,
227
,
249–50
,
252

French Revolution,
366n16

Friendly Sons of Molly Pitcher,
65

From Slavery to Freedom
(Franklin),
214

Frost, John,
234
,
257–58

Frothingham, Richard,
14
,
199–200

Gadsden, Christopher,
207

Gage, Margaret Kemble,
18

Gage, Thomas,
18
,
47–48
,
80–81
,
87
,
93
,
95