akihabro
03-08-2009, 03:42 PM
I answered a students question about the revolution on yahoo answers
Why didn't most americans support the revolution when it began?
im doing a school assignment and this will be on the test and i cant find the awnser in the book. please help.
Someone answered:
The American Revolution has been romanticized to the point that it is almost a fairy tale. to understand your question, you have to look at the real reason for the revolution.
The revolution was not about freedom, or taxes without representation, it was about greed. the colonist were sent to the US, by King George to farm the land, grow tobacco and things like that. it was all for profit. the colonist figured out that they could keep the money and land for themselves and cut out the middleman. that was what the revolution was really all about. that is why you had some supporters (people with land grants) and some who didn't (people who came here for other reasons)
Source(s):
college history
I answered:
This is a LIE. Most people did support it.
While there is no way of knowing the actual numbers, historians have estimated that about 15-20% of the population remained loyal to the British Crown; these were known at the time as "Loyalists", "Tories", or "King's men".[31][32] They were outnumbered by perhaps 2-1 by the patriots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Re...
Read
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
http://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/liesmyteache...
The department of education is paying the bills at your school (if its public) They don't want to teach that the revolution was popular. Governments wouldn't last too long if revolutions became popular.
I'll send you the audio files for the whole book if you want.
Thomas Paine printed a pamphlet called common sense. This was basically supporting the revolution
Thomas Paine began work on Common Sense in late 1775 under the working title of Plain Truth. With the help of Benjamin Rush, who suggested the title Common Sense and helped edit and publish, Paine developed his ideas into a forty-eight page pamphlet. Paine published Common Sense anonymously because of its treasonous content. Printed and sold by R. Bell, Third Street, Philadelphia, it sold as many as 120,000 copies in the first three months, 500,000 in the first year, and went through twenty-five editions in the first year alone.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sens...
2.5 million
In July 1776, the number of people living in the colonies
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/...
500,000 pamphlets would make 20% of the population. Thats a lot.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090308140723AAQJUFe&r=w#TMwsI1jUVHZD830YPYJQ
Anyone disagree with his answer?
Why didn't most americans support the revolution when it began?
im doing a school assignment and this will be on the test and i cant find the awnser in the book. please help.
Someone answered:
The American Revolution has been romanticized to the point that it is almost a fairy tale. to understand your question, you have to look at the real reason for the revolution.
The revolution was not about freedom, or taxes without representation, it was about greed. the colonist were sent to the US, by King George to farm the land, grow tobacco and things like that. it was all for profit. the colonist figured out that they could keep the money and land for themselves and cut out the middleman. that was what the revolution was really all about. that is why you had some supporters (people with land grants) and some who didn't (people who came here for other reasons)
Source(s):
college history
I answered:
This is a LIE. Most people did support it.
While there is no way of knowing the actual numbers, historians have estimated that about 15-20% of the population remained loyal to the British Crown; these were known at the time as "Loyalists", "Tories", or "King's men".[31][32] They were outnumbered by perhaps 2-1 by the patriots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Re...
Read
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
http://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/liesmyteache...
The department of education is paying the bills at your school (if its public) They don't want to teach that the revolution was popular. Governments wouldn't last too long if revolutions became popular.
I'll send you the audio files for the whole book if you want.
Thomas Paine printed a pamphlet called common sense. This was basically supporting the revolution
Thomas Paine began work on Common Sense in late 1775 under the working title of Plain Truth. With the help of Benjamin Rush, who suggested the title Common Sense and helped edit and publish, Paine developed his ideas into a forty-eight page pamphlet. Paine published Common Sense anonymously because of its treasonous content. Printed and sold by R. Bell, Third Street, Philadelphia, it sold as many as 120,000 copies in the first three months, 500,000 in the first year, and went through twenty-five editions in the first year alone.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sens...
2.5 million
In July 1776, the number of people living in the colonies
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/...
500,000 pamphlets would make 20% of the population. Thats a lot.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090308140723AAQJUFe&r=w#TMwsI1jUVHZD830YPYJQ
Anyone disagree with his answer?