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4. Many people, including professional historians, assume or even argue that the rev- olutionaries were driven to rebellion because they bought into and deeply believed in the ideals discussed in question 1 and the arguments you identified in question 3. Why is this not a satisfying account of the cause of the revolution? In particular, would this explain the patterns enumerated in questions 1 and 2 that incentives were able to explain? Would this explain why revolutionaries bought the arguments in question 3, and why the loyalists and British did not