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How do you get people living in thirteen different colonies to come together and fight for independence?
What ideas and experiences would even unite them behind the fight?
Patriot leaders asked themselves these very questions, especially as the American Revolution turned from a series of political protests against imperial policies to a bloody war for independence. What\\u2019s more, Patriot leaders also asked themselves once we find these ideas and experiences, how do we use them to unite the American people?
Robert Parkinson, an Assistant Professor of History at Binghamton University and author of the award-winning book, The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution, has some ideas for how patriot leaders answered these questions.
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