{"id":813,"date":"2023-06-29T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/?p=813"},"modified":"2024-08-26T18:44:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T18:44:28","slug":"the-american-revolution-activity-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/the-american-revolution-activity-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Revolution: Activity 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light\" style=\"min-height:67px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#bf5700\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"247\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-793\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/06\/module-5-header.jpeg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/06\/module-5-header.jpeg 1100w, https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/06\/module-5-header-300x67.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/06\/module-5-header-1024x230.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/06\/module-5-header-768x172.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Road to Revolution<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color\" style=\"color:#bf5700;font-size:clamp(14.642px, 0.915rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.721), 22px);\">The Road to Revolution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unlike many modern revolutions, the American Revolution was not rooted in economic deprivation or in the struggle of an oppressed class against an entrenched elite. But, this does not mean that the colonists did not suffer from serious grievances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Revolution was the product of forty&nbsp;years of abuses by the British authorities that many colonists regarded as a threat to their liberty and property. However,&nbsp;people do not act simply in response to objective reality, but according to the significance that they give to events. The Revolution resulted from the way the colonists perceived and interpreted events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The American patriots were alarmed by what they saw as a conspiracy against their liberty. They feared that the corruption and the abuses of power by the British government would taint their own society. And, further, they were troubled by the knowledge that they had no say over a government three thousand miles away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.la.utexas.edu\/his-315k-external\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2023\/06\/reading-maps.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-761\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#333f48\">Reading Maps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\">This section no longer exists.  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