The+war+Continues

= //** ﻿ Winter @ Valley Forge 1778**//...... =

//**Joseph Martin spent the winter @ valley forge. " We had a hard duty to perform, & little or no strength to perform it with ". The greatest challenge was keeping the continental army together**//
= Help from overseas..... = ===//**Lafayette had brought a ship & set sail for America, he rushed & join the battle for freedom. He wrote to his wie & kids " The future of america is closely bound up w/ the future of all mankind ." He became a trusted aide for washington.**//=== = Money Problems..... = ===﻿ **//Continental congress had no power to raise money through taxes. But they received some money from the states & from foreign countries. But much more money was needed, they printed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of money. The effect was it led to inflation, it took more and more money to buy the same amount of goods. The congress stop giving people money because no one would use it. Americans didn't have no other way to finance the fighting of their own war .//**=== = Life at Home Front/:Attitudes Change/Treatment Of Loyalists..... = = Hopes **for Equality.......** = = Gaining allies france and spain =
 * //Women took over duties that belong to their husbands or fathers. Other women ran their husbands or their own business.//**
 * //Vermont, New Hampshire , Massachusetts & Pennsylvania attempted to end slavery in their states//**