In the period of 1750 to 1776, colonists endured changes radically. They united in protection of their rights as Americans, even though some of them opposed the idea of becoming independent. Also, they became a new, united race that lacked injustice and servility. For the extent that the colonists developed, was a sense of their own identity and unity as Americans, by the eve of the Revolution.First, colonists united regarding their rights, for they has decided that a powerful government had to be checked by the Body of People, so that they would maintain stability within their own country; America is now most firmly united and as firmly resolved to defend their libertiesagainst every powerthat may attempt to take them away(Richard Lee, 24 February, 1774). Therefore, stopping any kind of fallacy that would result in a rebellion, and weakening the country. Also, the reader see it when the Representatives meet in Congress and set forth the causes and necessities of their up arms, willing to die free, than to live enslaved. In addition, the fact that many of the states decide to contribute to the Boston Relief helps to mitigate the counterattack of Britain in response to the Boston Tea Party.Second, some of the colonists, the Patriots, opposed the thought of separating from England, making a great deal of it. Patriots said that they rather be govern by a tyrant a thousand miles away, than a thousand tyrants not a mile away. For some states were pressuring others to join them by threatening them, that they had the power to annihilate them. And for that cause some declared Patriots, tyrants in disguise; is better, to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away, or by three thousand tyrants not a mile awaythere was just as much humbug in politics seventy years ago as there is today (The Famous Mather Byles: The Noted Boston Tory Preacher, Poet and Wit, 1707-1788). And this was probably the cause for why the Patriots were given...
