The Revolutionary Redox Reaction Revolutions, like violent chemical reactions, leave drastic changes after the raging fire consumes them. Preceding the American Revolution, England left the American colonies alone under an attitude of salutary neglect. As a result of this, the American colonies grew accustomed to self rule, which led to their inherently rebellious spirit when Britain attempted to exert control much later. The attitude was demonstrated through the colonists’ response to British acts, including the Stamp Act of 1765, in which representatives from multiple colonies gathered together to form the Stamp Act Congress. This spirit of unity and resistance ultimately divorced the American colonies further from England, causing tensions to soar to a point of no return, as well as laying the basis of ideas for the birth of a new country. Although the American Revolution may have led to changes in the overarching social status quo, it clearly resulted mostly continuous political, and economic beliefs. Throughout the American Revolution, societal circumstances shifted drastically, resulting in social change that would not have been possible had the American colonies still existed under the English crown. During the revolution, Thomas Paine’s …show more content…
The colonial smuggling in response to British attempts to restrict economic development had become so common that a myriad of acts were passed in an attempt to stop the free enterprise of the American colonies. This smuggling demonstrated that the colonists were not content to merely sit still and watch themselves become enslaved by English tyrants. The fact that the smuggling required the passage of the writs of assistance as well as the Quartering Act truly demonstrated how far the colonists had been willing to go in an effort to obtain economic