Ideas and bloodshed together, not either alone, moved colonists to revolution

Evidence

These abuses turned many New Jersey residents against the Crown, Galloway claimed. For them, independence no longer rested on a declaration signed months earlier in Philadelphia, which up to 10,000 of them had repudiated in return for promises of protection, but on a spontaneous rising in defense of their own lives, property, and honor. — Edward J. Larson, Declaring Independence, 316 (#instantiates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Lived British abuses, not abstract declarations, drove New Jersey civilians to embrace independence. — Edward J. Larson, Declaring Independence, 316; Revolutionary change happens in public opinion before it happens on battlefields — Edward J. Larson, Declaring Independence, 353