During the pre revolutionary era of the thirteen North American colonies, most colonists residing in the area adopted their own sense of identity and unified in their efforts of protest, self-government, etc. This ideal of identity and union raised the framework for the American Revolution.
The identity of the colonists during the pre revolution era became quite apparent during the dawn of the revolution. The great majority of the people in America believed that they had adopted their own sense of identity, contrary to that of the Englishman. Edmund Burke, a colonial backer, describes of how the colonists could not have the same identity as the English, because of a great geographical separation. The British and the colonists had some 2000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean betwixt them (DOCUMENT). This great distance along with Britain's actions of salutary neglect taken towards the colonies planted their economic self-reliant identity. For example, the America's had all of the capabilities of an independent nation, but with the passing of the Navigation Acts, Townshend Acts, etc.,
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In addition, the ethnically mixed nationalities of the people in the colonies created a group of people with the most unusual identities on the entire world. As Hector St. John Crevecoeur said in his published work Letters from an American Empire, Hector expresses how one man could have an English grandfather, Dutch wife, and a son who married a Frenchwoman (DOCUMENT). Nowhere else in the world had such ethnic diversity at this time, especially in England, which was governed by strict moral ethics and a strict caste system. This mass of different ethnic groups procreating in the colonies, or "melting pot"ÃÂ as it is referred to, gave way...