Americans by the eve of the Revolution. This unity and identity by no means came

instantaneously, but came as a slow trickle and even on the eve of the revolution was still

not complete. This sense of unity and identity came through change over time and helped

shape the American spirit on the eve of the Revolution.

At first the colonists thought of themselves to be British settlers. But as time

progressed, and many colonists in the colonies were born in America, and began to

intermingle with other cultures, they began to develop an identity that they were their

won people. This point is shown well in Hector St. John Crevecoeur, Letters from an

American Farmer. The colonist that now lived in America had less and les ties ethnically

to the British and became moreover products of the "melting pot affect", a person created

from the many cultures from all over tie globe. An example of the identity shared by the

colonists as one people is shown by the manifest of the Contributors of Donations for the

Relief of Boston, 1774-1775. The colonists came together on as Americans to help other

then a group of British settlers. The American colonists were not the only ones to see

sense of their identity and unity as Americans by the eve of the Revolution.

creating the Committees of Correspondents. The Committee spread propaganda such as

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