Answer:
In December, 1777, General George Washington moved the Continental Army to their winter quarters at Valley Forge. By the time the army marched into Valley Forge on December 19, they were suffering not only from cold, hunger, and fatigue, but from low morale in the wake of the disastrous Philadelphia Campaign.
Nationalism and imperialism encouraged each nation to pursue it's own in complete for power
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Some Americans believed that it was God who wanted them to expand it's dominion and spread democracy and capitalism essentially across the entire North American continent. They also wanted to expand their territory, this caused them to drive Native Americans out of their land for the new settlers to settle in.