Slaves and peasants were dying quickly and vastly caused a high loss of work for the upperclass civilians... the peasants could go on "stike". They were able to demand more turning the system on its head.
It's a. The British thought they were going to win the war the whole way but the British loss at Saratoga made the French think that if they joined forces with the us rebels that the over powering British forces could be taken down.
