HIS 315K Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Continental Army, Conservative Revolutionary Movement
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Religion (struggle between old and new lights) Concord reaction to rise of revolutionary fervor in boston. Initially, concordians were hesitant about revolution: not interested because townsmen were fighting over squabbles. How do we go to reluctant revolutionary to willing revolutionaries: start forming the militia (way of attaining social and political unity, boston sends letter to concord trying to confirm the grievances against the. Concordians stand in political spectrum: british imposing unwanted laws and taxes and how concord responds. Social structure of family starts to split (generational divide) Class divide (one son taken care of by father, another son whose father can"t give him much land) Since land was starting to run out, many couldn"t practice extensive agriculture. Wealthy families start speculating (artificially driving land prices up) Since slaves had nothing to lose, they would become militiamen and hopefully gain profit. British comes into concord, town resists them. Concord during the war, how it handles the war.
