The Minutemen and Their World, by Robert Gross, is a novel that explains the years before, during, and after the American Revolution from the citizen's perspective in Concord, Massachusetts. The book gives detail about the life of the people that live in Concord and other close by areas. The book also explains how the people of Concord came to support this revolution and become patriots of our great nation. One of the reasons the book illustrated was the economic problem due to overpopulation and not having enough productive land in the area around the town. Also, the New Englanders had grown to hold a strong belief that the taxes that Britain imposed on them were violating their inalienable rights "as Men, as Christians, and as Subjects."(Gross 65). There were also other reasons then those stated above, the people of Concord had a great deal of political tensions already. Mainly due to the pressures the patriotic colonists put on the dissenters to conform to their values.
             Concord started out as just a small shire town where the Middlesex County courts met. It was also a center for trade and communication in the area because of the high quality of roads that ran to and from Concord. These roads made Concord a prime spot for the temporary meeting place of the colonial government. This happened when a huge smallpox outbreak occurred in Boston from 1752 to 1764. This put Concord on the map and helped pave the way for it to become more of a political town. But, even though the colonial government was there for some time, it still took up until 1772 before the citizens of Concord really paid attention to colonial disputes against Britain. They had problems of their own to deal with, and needed to talk mostly about their own land, schools, roads and religious matters. These issues took up most of their time during the few town meetings they held.
             Concord had many other problems early on as well. "Pre...