APUS History DBQ
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By the eve of the revolution a new identify was blossoming and becoming manifest in the hearts and minds of the colonists. American colonists of England had, due to salutary neglect, gotten a taste of the freedoms of self- rule and what it could bring. A new idea spread like wildfire and the revolution was in full swing.
Colonists began to realize that they could more easily rule themselves than a single man could rule them from thousands of miles away (document D). People began to accept and experience a variety of cultures. According to document H a certain American who left behind him practices and mannerisms of a different age and place had become the figure of what was the new America.
In Document A America's first political cartoon depicts the strong sense of the need for unity the colonists felt. This seems to illustrate that they were fighting a common enemy, and were searching for independence of other nations, if not each other. According to document C America was united and ready to oppose any power that tried to overtake them or threaten their liberty.
The idea that being ruled by a man who was over three-thousand miles away made little sense to them, when the people had proven themselves to be equally fit rulers, who were close enough to the situations to understand the situations, how people felt about them, and how they should be dealt with (document D)...