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1775 - George Washington was 43, not 60 when the Revolutionary War started

1776 - The machine gun wasn't invented until 1882, a hundred years after the Revolutionary War ended.

1777 - Basketball wasn't invented until 1891, more than one hundred years after the Revolutionary War ended.

1778 - The Pequot Indians of Connecticut were nearly wiped out in the very first war between Indians and white settlers in 1637. There were Indians who fought with the patriots and others who fought with the British, but treaties granting them land or rights in return for their service were rarely honored.

1779 - Railroads weren't built in America until the 1830s, but even if they had been, George Washington knew that people got very angry when the British army took property without permission or forced people to cooperate, so he insisted that patriots would ask for help from private citizens but would not force people to help.

1780 - Jews had been in America for more than a hundred years before the Revolutionary War. They were not welcome in all the colonies, but colonies like Rhode Island guaranteed religious freedom and did not insist that everyone support the church. The first Jewish synagogue in America was built in 1730 in New York City.

1781 - Photography was not invented until the mid-1800s, when the first daguerrotypes were created. That's why there are no photos of the Revolutionary War. George Eastman was first involved with photography when he invented a process to make dry prints in 1878.

1782 - The Capitol Building was not constructed until 1793 and the city of District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.) was not created until after the War.

1783 - The Pledge of Alliance was not written until 1892. The original text by Baptist minister Francis Bellamy read: 'I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.' He considered placing the word, 'equality,' in his Pledge, but knew that the state superintendents of education on his committee were against equality for women and African Americans. In 1923 and 1924 the National Flag Conference, under the leadership of the American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution, changed the Pledge's words, 'my Flag,' to 'the Flag of the United States of America.' Bellamy disliked this change, but his protest was ignored. In it wasn't until 1954, that Congress, after a campaign by the Knights of Columbus, added the words, 'under God,' to the Pledge.

1784 - Key didn't compose the "Star Spangled Banner" until 1814 and the song wasn't adopted as the official national anthem of the U.S. until 1931

1785 - Congress didn't grant women the right to vote until 1920, though some states had given women the right to vote before that

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