From the Late 1760s to the Mid-1770s, an Ideology of Revolution

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Essay

From the late 1760s to the mid-1770s, an ideology of revolution began to evolve in the colonies. Explain the foundations of that ideology. Did the revolutionary ideology of common Americans differ from that of elite Americans? How did political ideology take on religious dimensions?

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