The tale of American Independence is often a familiar story that evokes the national pride inside the heart of every American. The tyranny of Britain stanched the fundamental liberties of the American colonies and against all odds they fought against oppression and won, securing the liberty and freedoms for the future citizens of an emerging nation. And although its easy to see the American Revolution as first beginning on the battlegrounds of Lexington and Concord, the revolution goes beyond the Declaration of Independence and war, it was a much broader intellectual movement that carved the American identity then now and forever. It describes the era when radical new ideas empowered the minds of American patriots to fight for self-government …show more content…
Despite Boston’s geographical size, it was a densely populated and was heavily networked. With access to its many ports all classes of society interacted daily with one another. Ship-makers would build ships for shippers, the importers received goods from the shippers, and merchants would sell to the shoemakers who would make shoes for a sailor about to sail on a boat built by a ship-maker. Alike Boston, the other colonies had sense of autonomy within the British empire. They paid taxes, but most were external taxes to regulate foreign trade, even then Britain 's laxity over colonial affairs brought a quasi-independence often called “Salutary Neglect”. Upon the wake of the French and Indian war, Britain redefined its approach to imperialism and began imposing and enforcing new taxes on the colonies to pay off its immense war debt. These new policies sparked discourse throughout the colonies as they demoted the American colonist to second class subjects by denying them parliamentary representation. Most colonies, vocalized their opposition through formal pleas to King George III. The Virginian house of Burgesses sent a formal petition pleading for parliament to revoke the illicit taxes. The people