How do the colonists get from the Coercive Acts to Revolution?

0:05Well, the Coercive Acts are unimagined. No, they're all meant to punish Boston and Massachusetts. The goal of problem was to separate isolated Massachusetts, some mesophilic colonies. You don't need to worry, but everybody is shocked. But what? They can forcibly change charters, they can shut down ports, they can take away livelihoods, and they can impose martial law, which is what they think the admiralty courts are on civilians. If they can do in Massachusetts, they could do it anywhere. It actually brings them together in what's known as the First Continental Congress. They really do confront. What I've said is it's pulling in return dilemma because I'm thinking they know, wait a second. We're actually saying that they can't

0:39tax on [inaudible] . Are we really saying that we can't be part of the British Empire and inverse, that's because you need to [inaudible]? What's interesting is in 1774, they still don't want what they don't know and what terms could they stay. They actually pass a resolution covered by John Adams in which they say that Parliament has no way to tax in any case whatsoever and no right to legislate, whether they will cheerfully consent. They're still having an external trade. We want us to remain part of the trade network of the empire. We want to be part of this wonderful, powerful economic entity that will part of what we have to say. But when we do it by consent, you can't even grinding of the palette of legislative bill is because the power to legislate for our commercial

1:22behavior is the same power to legislate the Coercive Acts. They're essentially not saying we will cheer if we consent to stay in. But you have to understand that it's only through our consent. Well, Parliament can't accept that. We went from 1774 on, there's a sense that there's no longer an option they can make to the king or the Parliament, a button that they could agree to, and there's no preexisting structure mean by the punishments, that's further intensified, and they sent optimal solution. At the end of May 1772, and then say, "Okay, so we'll meet again, and hopefully, things will have them as well." It's in the interim that then, the troops and broken arc are obligated to enforce depolarization. We have to

2:03start policing behavior. One of the messages, government action and limited number of town meetings to one per year. They're still meeting more than that. They're supposed to go out and stop that from happening on the leaders of the resistance movement had to flee Boston and go into surrounding communities like Lexington and Concord. The most radical of them extend, known as stockpiling weapons. What the British in the spring of 1775. Now, a few months before they're going to meet again, jury as they marched out of Boston to try and find these meetings and tried to essentially enforce the Massachusetts government. This leads to people massing in story, following the troops, and confronting them in first the Battle of Lexington, battle packable,

2:42then chasing them back to Boston, surrounding the city of Boston, laying siege to it. Now blood has been shed, shots and then fired on both sides. When the Congress meets a month later, the situation has become far, far worse than they didn't have like a reunion. Really, from 1775 on, even though some people still say, "Is there any way we can figure out a peaceful solution?"

3:03There simply isn't. I mean, essentially the only thing you got to say, "Well, can we simply say that Parliament has no authority and didn't get to deal directly with the king?" But then they're essentially saying we're equal to Parliament; we're our own government. Well, no king or Parliament can accept that. There's really no way to get out from the Second Continental Congress from 1775 slowly realizing it's actually a government.

3:23It has been heavily the worst situation and needs to start organizing army. It needs to start working with the constituent local governments in the States and it needs to, in fact, back up its claim that Parliament no longer has the authority [inaudible]. That's what leads to that second half, and you're squeezing that can lead to one of independence.

3:42Thomas Jefferson lost fine thymus and began writing it, and then declared into the world between July 2nd and July 4th during an independent nation within the community of nations, and welcoming nations to recognize and join with them as they tried to defend that independence. Which, in the end, was still about trying to pull back a little bit to the once part of his British level from what the announcement previously been stretched, and British level, which is Britain, while some new business isn't a lot exploring. It very much was non-negative.

4:12No one could have predicted even 15 years before, and none of the people who found themselves in the first and second primary system grew up thinking anything other than loyal British subjects of the king.