I never said the whole revolution... that took the British Military occupation of Boston to do.
After the BTP the Brits were so ticked off at Boston that they moved thousands of troops into Boston.
Then they began asserting British law and controlls that had been notoriously absent in the colonies. These troops were in a situation fairly close to the one their in in Iraq (without the wholesale war beforehand of course) they didn't know who to befriend and who to work with. Eventually their bumbling and stumbling around got people killed on both sides. Combined with the fact that the first troops moved into Boston were known as some of the worst troops in the British Army with the least amount of discipline (still better organzied and trained than Bostonian Mobs of course) and that these soldiers were billeted illegally in private citizens homes without any compensation. Combined with an abortive march into the countryside to sieze arms from local militias and near anarchy the British turned a bad situation into an uncontrollable mess. Other colonies balked at the rough treatment of Bostonians (egged on by the radical New England press) and reasoned that if Boston was first where would the British stop. It was touch and go, but when New England erupted into full scale war the other colonies were really scared. Especially when the talk coming out of London equated all Americans with New Englanders at the time. The British then invaded Charleston SC and New York (both on the cusp of revolution, but likely to eventually side with the King (A general minority of rebels in those places) these futher invasions galvanised the resolve of Americans to resist the British.
