What were the most effective ways of mobilizing people to support the resistance to British policies?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Good essays will note that common people had to be incorporated into the movement for independence. Without sufficient popular support, the British could overwhelm American elites. Students should note instances of lower-class mobilization in the attacks on property in the Stamp Act resistance and in enforcing the various boycotts. People were mobilized by groups like the Sons of Liberty and the Daughters of Liberty. The most effective means of mobilization was in Tom Paine's Common Sense, which mobilized people by appealing to them in a direct form of language and by attacking the king directly.
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