synthisis of TA documents and Movie clips

Watching the movie clips and reading to TA documents has shown me why and how the Revolutionary War started. I used to think I knew all about the RW from Watching Mel Gibbsons “the patriot, but I have been misled, although there are some cool facts in the movie. The movie clips and the documents have shown me that the Colonists and the Social Elite in America thought themselves as respectable British citizens, buying merchandise and other high-end goods made in London. Such as Clothes, Paintings, expensive Tea cups, an education ect. Rich and Powerful social Elite, such as Benjamin Franklin, thought them selves very respectable men. As I have learned from the movie clips, the Stamp Act was like a “bitch” slap to the face. The Stamp Act was an unprecedented Taxation of the American goods for the British Empire. The British did not ask to tax the people in America, they just did it. The Reason that the Elite in America were so hurt is that this meant that they were not respected in London, because only slaves and women and homeless people were taxed without consent. This meant that the Social Elite in London thought the Elite in America below them, this instantly sparked resentment toward the British empire the “stamp” men [the were the elected officials who were responsible for enforcing the Stamp Act].

The colonists started rebelling and boycotting British and British goods instantly, so the British took extreme measures upon Massachusetts Bay. The British sent over quite a few war ships and barricaded the Bay closed so the people could not get any supplies, the people soon became malnourished and cold, the three letters I have in front of me [Circular Letter of the Boston Committee of Correspondence; May 13, 1774, Letter from the New York Committee of Fifty-One to the Boston Committee of Correspondence; May 23, 1774, Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, October 14th, 1774] all are saying pretty much the same thing, the continental congress wants the British to Resolve 10 issues as stated in Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, October 14th, 1774, and that the American people be allowed to tax themselves and have freedom. Because “once you lose this freedom, you will never ever get it back, that is why we men must fight for it like men that know its true worth, for we truly must only fear slavery” (some guy off the movie clip, I forgot his name). There is a lot of truth in that quote, actually all of it is, however, as the unknown (I forgot her name) author states [in the movie clip] that “The power to tax has the power to destroy” i.e., “destroy” freedom.

All these actions and measures the British and the “Americans” [British colonists in America] are, is going to, lead up to the revolutionary war. But as J. Adams to T. Jefferson states in 1815 “What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the Revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The Revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected, from 1760-1775, in the course of fifteen years before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington.” he is saying that the revolution has already taken place I the minds of the people to the extent that they don’t call themselves British any more, it took 15 more years for the war to take place to physically separate America And the British Empire.