S8 Ep328: DEFINING THE CAUSE AND THE MONARCH'S POWER Colleague Joseph Ellis. Ellis explains that colonists adopted the term "the cause" to describe their diverse opposition to British policy and eventual desire for independence, covering various interest groups und
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🗓️ 17 January 2026
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| 0:45.9 | Here's John Batchelor. |
| 0:49.9 | It's a great pleasure to welcome Professor Joseph Ellis. |
| 0:56.9 | His new book is The Cause, the American Revolution and its discontents, critical. |
| 0:59.9 | 1773 to 1783. |
| 1:02.7 | Professor, congratulations and good evening. |
| 1:07.2 | I go immediately to your title because it requires much explanation. |
| 1:13.3 | Who called what we now see the revolution, the cause? And why did they call it the cause? Good evening to you. Good evening, Tim. The cause is what the American colonists |
| 1:22.3 | began to use as a term to describe their opposition to British policy in the mid-1770s. |
| 1:32.2 | And nobody called it the American Revolution at that time or even until at the end of the war. |
| 1:40.1 | The British called it the American Rebellion. |
| 1:43.2 | And originally the phrase was the common cause. |
| 1:46.0 | It was a term that the 12 other colonies used to describe their willingness to support Massachusetts |
| 1:53.0 | when Massachusetts was occupied by the British Army in the wake of the Tea Party and what's called the coercive acts as a way of punishing that particular colony. |
| 2:04.8 | Once you get to the summer of 76, the common cause becomes simply the cause. |
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