Introduction
How did the events leading up to the revolution create a negative image/idea of the British?
Pre-revolutionary events such as the implementation of new law by the British upon the North American colonies such as the Intolerable, Stamp, and Tea Acts between 1765 and 1773 ultimately climaxed into the events of the Boston Massacre in 1770 and Tea Party in 1773. The indifference between colonial Patriots and British Loyalists gradually increased into tension between both parties. The actions taken by the British were the sparks that lit the revolutionary fire within the hearts of the colonial patriots; a fire that would heat the unhardened tar of outrage, and in later years pave the road to the American Revolutionary War. Because the colonists felt the British Crown's authoritative actions worsened the colonial economy and interfered with their pre-existing liberties, an evolving negative attitude towards the Loyalists came
Guest, Geoffrey. "The Boarding of the Dependent Poor in Colonial America." Social Service Review 63.1 (1989): 92-112. Print.
Merritt, Jane T. "Tea Trade, Consumption, and the Republican Paradox in Prerevolutionary Philadelphia." The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 128.2 (2004): 117-48. Print.
STRANG, CAMERON B. "Michael Cresap and the Promulgation of Settler Land-Claiming Methods in the Backcountry, 1765-1774." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 118.2 (2010): 106-35. Print.
Pre-revolutionary events such as the implementation of new law by the British upon the North American colonies such as the Intolerable, Stamp, and Tea Acts between 1765 and 1773 ultimately climaxed into the events of the Boston Massacre in 1770 and Tea Party in 1773. The indifference between colonial Patriots and British Loyalists gradually increased into tension between both parties. The actions taken by the British were the sparks that lit the revolutionary fire within the hearts of the colonial patriots; a fire that would heat the unhardened tar of outrage, and in later years pave the road to the American Revolutionary War. Because the colonists felt the British Crown's authoritative actions worsened the colonial economy and interfered with their pre-existing liberties, an evolving negative attitude towards the Loyalists came
Guest, Geoffrey. "The Boarding of the Dependent Poor in Colonial America." Social Service Review 63.1 (1989): 92-112. Print.
Merritt, Jane T. "Tea Trade, Consumption, and the Republican Paradox in Prerevolutionary Philadelphia." The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 128.2 (2004): 117-48. Print.
STRANG, CAMERON B. "Michael Cresap and the Promulgation of Settler Land-Claiming Methods in the Backcountry, 1765-1774." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 118.2 (2010): 106-35. Print.