What Caused the American Revolution?

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🗓️ 30 June 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

What took the US from the Boston Tea Party to Lexington and Concord? Where was the turning point for the creation of the republic?

Mary Beth Norton joins Don in this episode to take us through the causes of the Revolutionary War, and why the year 1774 is so important in this history.

Edited by Aidan Lonergan. Produced by Sophie Gee. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.

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0:23.0	The Open University, the voices of dissent have moved from hearsayed
0:37.7	mutterings to clamoring complaints. Rumor and gossip are on the wind.
0:42.0	The British have stolen our gunpowder.
0:45.0	The powder house is raided. They have no right.
0:48.0	I heard 250 soldiers are rowing up the mystic,
0:52.0	30,000 are crossing the Atlantic.
0:54.0	Red coats fired on our people. They killed six just yesterday and they plan to dismantle
1:00.4	the docks. It's all hot sparks on the dry tinder of civil disobedience.
1:06.1	Thousands of American militiamen are uniting to defend Boston to stand up for the rights
1:11.0	of the colonists against the forces of despotism, against tyranny.
1:15.9	It's the year 1774, and just how far this all will go is still anyone's guess. Good day history hit listeners. I'm Don Wildman and today we talk of
1:36.4	revolution more specifically the roots of the American Revolution which despite
1:41.0	their obvious importance to the flowering of this nation,
1:44.0	250 years later Americans are hard-pressed to explain the soil from which this conflict sprouted.
1:50.0	Why exactly we went to war?
1:52.0	We all learned in grade school the exhortations,
1:54.8	don't tread on me, no taxation without representation, give me liberty or give me
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