"The colonists believed they saw ... what appeared to be evidence of nothing less than a deliberate assault launched surreptitiously by plotters against liberty both in England and in America. The danger to America, it was believed, was in fact only the small immediately visable part of the greater whole whose ultimate manifestation would be the destruction of the English constitution with all the rights and privileges embedded in it ...

It was this--- the overwelming evidence, as they saw it, that they were faced with conspirators against liberty determined at all costs to gain ends which their worlds dissembled [portrayed falsely]--- that was signaled to the colonists after 1763, and it was this above all else that in the end propelled them into Revolution."

                                                                                                   Bernard Bailyn, historian, The Logic of Rebellion, 1967

"The Americans, 'born the heirs of freedom,' revolted not to create but to maintain their freedom. American society had developed differently from that of the Old World .... While the speculative philosophers of Europe were laboriously searching their minds in an effort to decide the first principles of liberty, the Americans had come to experience vividly that liberty in their everyday lives .... The Revolution was thus essentially intellectual and declaratory: it 'explained the business to the world, and served to confirm what nature and society had before produced.' 'All was the result of reason ....' The Revolution had taken place not in a succession of eruptions that had crumbled the existing social structure, but in a succession of new thoughts and new ideas that had vindicated that social structure..... The Americans revolted not out of actual suffering but out of reasoned principle."

                                                                                                      Gordon S. Wood, historian, The Idea of America, 2011

Using the excerpts, answer (a), (b), and (c).

(a)  Briefly explain ONE major difference between Wood's and Brailyn's historical interpretations of why the American colonies rebelled against the British.

(b) Briefly explain how ONE historical event or development in the period of 1754 to 1776 that is not explicitly mentioned in the excerpts that could be used to support Brailyn's interpretation.

(c) Briefly explain how ONE historical event or development in the period of 1754 to 1776 that is not explicitly mentioned in the excerpts that could be used to support Wood's interpretation.