Robert Morris

Robert Morris was born on January 20th, 1734 in lancashire England. The state that he represented was Pennsylvania. He first attended school when he was 10 at a school in Philadelphia. In 1748 he became a merchant in Philadelphia. 10 years later he became a member of the continental congress and was also one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. But before he signed this piece of paper he protested it first but eventually signed. Morris had loaned 10,000 dollars of his own money to go towards funds for the war. He made plans for a National bank and submitted it to congress and it later became the Bank of North America.

Following the war he served in the Pennsylvania Legislature. He died in 1806 at the age of 73.

Robert Morris helped finance a lot of things for the war. He helped pay Washington's troops and help with supplies. Before the war there was a stamp act which Morris was one of the several people who protested this act. He created a bank for the colonies so they could support their troops and keep the war going. Morris was one of the biggest reasons we still had troops fighting for the colony's. If he did not donate money to support the troops then the war would have been over and Britain would control what now is the United States of America.

Robert Morris was part of the revolutionary war for financial reasons. He wanted to help support the troops in the war because he was part of the Philadelphia government. He wanted to be a part of this war because they were the ones who set up the colony's and did not want what they made just taken away. He did not like the way England was treating them because they tried to take things they had no part in. This is why he supported the colony's. He had a great part in this war.

Robert Morris deserves a lot more credit because with out him most of Washington's troops would have quit because they would not have been paid. He is a signer of the Declaration of Independence, he supplied military supplies for the troops to help fight. He was also the person to come up with the idea for a bank. These are reasons that Robert Morris should have more recognition and for many other reasons.