American Identity Dbq

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Identity is what ultimately lead to the lack of unity on the eve of the Revolution, since the colonies were split, due to the fact that one third of the colonists considered themselves as American, and another third still believed that they wanted to be loyal to their home country. While Britain put the Americans in salutary neglect, the colonies had a lot of time to practice democracy and self rule, increasing the sense of an American identity, straying away from Britain. On the other hand, many colonists still believed they were British because they had ties with their mother country and wanted to be loyal to the British. There were also many people living in the colonies were not English, making more of a separation between the British and