The British army led by Cornwallis faced defeat in the battle of Yorktown.
<u>Explanation:</u>
Yorktown was the last battle place in the American Revolutionary War. The British troops led by Cornwallis finally surrendered in the Battle of Yorktown. The Continental Army was under the control of Nathaniel Greene and they applied several brilliant war tactics.
When the British troops retreated to Yorktown George Washington led his army down from the North. By this time the French navy also moved to the coast near Yorktown after defeating the British navy. After eleven days of war the British troops finally surrendered by accepting the terms of George Washington.
The Indian subcontinent is a southern region and peninsula of Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate and projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas. So yes, it is part of Asia.
In the late 1800s, the system of sharecropping in the South failed to <u>stimulate and grow the Southern economy.</u>
The correct answer is to Promote cultural assimilation
Explanation:
In the first photograph, children at the Carlie Indian School are wearing traditional Native American clothes, and boys have long hair, which was considered as normal in Native American Tribes. These features disappeared in the second photo because in this, boys have short hair and all the children are wearing similar clothes. Moreover, these clothes do not resemble the tribe's clothes but Europeans or colonizers' clothes.
This shows the children have acquired values, ideas, practices, etc. of colonizers, while forgetting about traditional values, ideas, practices, etc. This process is known as cultural assimilation and implies minorities adapt to the main culture by adopting cultural elements of this culture.
