Sowing the Seeds of Revolution

I don't really enjoy history too much, but I chose "Sowing the Seeds of Revolution" because without the American Revolution, there is no United States of America. This chapter starts out with how it all got started. Sam Adams, a writer for the Boston Gazette in 1760s, pretty much started it all. He was the guy who started questioning all the British taxes.  This is where the famous line "No taxation without representation" came from.  Adams saw it to be unfair that the British government was about to tax the Americas, yet the Americas had no say in governmental affairs. He created the Journal of Occurrence, which you can say was Americas first newspaper. This paper spread the idea of a revolution to all the colonies. Most of his articles contained information about the British soldiers committing crimes against the colonials. These articles did a good job labeling the soldiers as villains. Soon after this, the Boston Massacre took place.

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It wasn't long after this, that Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense. Common Sense was a pamphlet that suggested we as people deserved much more than the government was giving us.

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Within three months, over 150,000 copies of Common Sense were sold. Common Sense sparked a fuse that got the people interested. It wasn't too long after that America went to war against Britain. The rest is history.