USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The British decided to concentrate their efforts in the South partly because the South had many Loyalists. More Native Americans fought on the side of the British than with the Americans during the American Revolution. After realizing that he could not control North Carolina, Cornwallis retreated to Georgia.

Detailed explanation-2: -The British turned their efforts to the South, where they thought the loyalists were strongest and they hoped to enlist slaves to their cause. But the British had overestimated loyalist sentiment in the South.

Detailed explanation-3: -The British southern strategy was to move the military theater to the southern colonies where there were more Loyalist colonists. Slaves and Indian allies, the British hoped, would also swell their ranks.

Detailed explanation-4: -What Happened to the Loyalists? In the end, many Loyalists simply left America. About 80, 000 of them fled to Canada or Britain during or just after the war. Because Loyalists were often wealthy, educated, older, and Anglican, the American social fabric was altered by their departure.

Detailed explanation-5: -When the colonies refused to do so through their elected assemblies, some Loyalists thought the British Parliament had a right to tax them, even if the colonies had no direct representation in that Parliament. Other Loyalists opposed parliamentary taxation, but did not consider violent opposition justified.