He tries to awaken the reader to the terrible
<span>living conditions of immigrants in the cities around the turn of </span>
<span>the century. </span>
<span>Native Americans were divided towards their allegiances during the war. However, Native Americans were more likely to side with the British because in their opinion it was the colonists who were encroaching on their land. Also, the Native Americans had a history of fighting with the British, during the French and Indian war. Additionally, many Native American leaders believed the British would win the war, and they wanted to be on the winning side of the conflict.</span>
The <span>relationship between the American colonies before the Revolutionary War was almost non-existent--with each colony functioning very much independently from the others, as if they were almost different countries. </span>
