Transformation -- From Reaction to Revolution

How is it that the colonists arrived to the point where revolution was necessary?

Thank you for reading this essay. It is part of an ongoing series titled Old Friends and this is the fifth contribution on Barnard Bailyn's The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution.

The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations … This radical change in the princ…