Question: how did republican and whig ideas affect american colonists

title: Radical Whigs
text: The radical Whigs ' political ideas played a significant role in the development of the American Revolution , as their republican writings were widely read by the American colonists , many of whom were convinced by their reading that they should be very watchful for any threats to their liberties . Subsequently , when the colonists were indignant about their perceived lack of representation and taxes such as the Stamp Act , the Sugar Act and the Tea Act , the colonists broke away from the Kingdom of Great Britain to form the United States of America . `` Radical Whig perceptions of politics attracted widespread support in America because they revived the traditional concerns of a Protestant culture that had always verged on Puritanism . That moral decay threatened free government could not come as a surprise to a people whose fathers had fled England to escape sin . The importance of virtue , frugality , industry , and calling was at the heart of their moral code . An overbearing executive , and the threat of corruption through idle , useless officials , or placemen , had figured prominently in their explanations of their exile in America . '' So `` most '' of the ideas the American Revolutionaries put into their political system `` were a part of the great tradition of the eighteenth - century commonwealthmen . '' 

Answer: answer: The radical Whigs' political ideas played a significant role in the development of the American Revolution. The colonists were indignant about their perceived lack of representation and taxes such as the Stamp Act, the Sugar Act and the Tea Act. Radical Whig perceptions of politics attracted widespread support in America because they revived the traditional concerns of a Protestant culture that had always verged on Puritanism. The importance of virtue, frugality, industry and calling was at the heart of their moral code.