![]() ![]() The British thought they were gonna teach the Americans a lesson and thereby avert any movement towards independence. So "common cause" is a term to say that all the colonies are going to rally in support of their sister colony in Massachusetts, instead of letting her be isolated. ![]() Um, and, uh, is, uh, describing the common response of all the 13 colonies to British policy towards Boston and Massachusetts and the so-called coercive acts and shutting down the port in reaction to the Boston Tea Party. ![]() They didn't use the term American Revolution until after it was over. Um, the British called what became the American Revolution, the American Rebellion. So was the word, the phrase, "The Cause" used then by them, because the Revolutionary War wasn't called the Revolutionary War, was that right? "The Cause" was what people then called what we now call the Revolutionary War effort more or less. RUBENSTEIN: So, let's talk about "The Cause." Joseph Ellis, thank you very much for being with us today. Uh, he's a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and we're gonna talk about his new book, The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783. ♪ ♪ (theme music plays) RUBENSTEIN: Hello, I'm David Rubenstein.Īnd today I'm going to be in conversation with Joseph Ellis, who is one of the nation's leading historians and expert in the colonial revolutionary period. ![]()
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