Explain what John Adams meant when he said that the American Revolution "was in the minds of the people, and this was effected from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen years before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington."
What specific groups of people were inclined to support the Revolution before its actual onset in April 1775? Why were these groups inclined to support the Revolution even before the first shots were fired at Lexington?
Answer: An ideal answer will:
1. Offer a thesis statement defining what John Adams meant by his above statement.
2. Discuss why British laws such as the Sugar Act, Currency Act, the Stamp Act, the Revenue Act, the Townshend duties, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts motivated certain groups of colonists, including merchants, lawyers, businessmen, and artisans, to consider revolution an appropriate response to these coercive British laws.
3. Discuss the influence of impressments in putting revolution in the minds of colonial merchants or commercial sailors and port city residents.
4. Discuss the role of the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party in moving colonials in Boston and other cities to perceive revolution as a plausible response to British rule in the colonies.
5. Discuss the influence of the development of tax resistance and economic boycott groups such as Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty in making colonial peoples inclined to support revolution before the battles of Lexington and Concord.
6. Discuss the development and attacks of the Regulator movement in the back country of the Carolinas as a precursor to the American Revolution.
7. Discuss the political role of the First Continental Congress in September 1774 in putting revolution in the minds of colonial leaders and prominent citizens.
8. Provide a concise and effective conclusion.
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