How Did The Revolution Influence The People Of Concord

Gross explains to the readers about how life was in Concord and how it was politically, socially and economically. He states that he will give us a lot of evidence about the people of Concord and give us there reactions to the revolution and how it changed them politically, socially, and economically. These three things shaped their lives and over time changed due to circumstances that have happened thanks to Parliament. But those three ideas made up something that the people of Concord needed, which were Magistrates. Magistrates were basically “a model of wisdom and righteousness, a lover of justice and champion of the people’s rights.”(33) The people looked up to them as “father” figures because they needed leaders to help them as much as possible. The downside of this is that no one of lower class could be a magistrate or someone of power. People from Concord felt that it would leave their government in a
The Local government only dealt with what went on in the town only, so no outside matters came up. Still being under the Redcoats, the people were loyal until the British made a lot of bad decisions, with one of them being the Stamp Act in 1765. This act made people boycott imports from Britain because it taxed anything that was made from paper. Parliament later repealed this act to then give the Declaratory Act of 1766, which allowed Parliament to control the colonies through legislation. So they had complete control over all imports. Another bad decision was having troops stationed in the area in 1768 but two years later The Boston Massacre occurred. Making the people who were settled in these colonies rethink their pact with Parliament. The people of Concord wanted to take a stand but decided not to revolt yet since they wanted to have a better strategy and have stronger leaders back them up. But since the economy was crumbling from the British the settlers decided to