Based on your reading of Ray Raphael's book The First American Revolution and on our discussion of the revolution in lecture, please explain the role of "the people" in the American Revolution. In your essay examine why many people chose to rebel and what "the people" fought for. As you make your argument distinguish between the body of the people, who we called in lecture "the people out of doors," and the gentlemen who sought to assert their own vision upon the struggle for independence from Britain.