THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
BRITISH LOYALISTS VS AMERICAN PATRIOTS DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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Neutralists
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Patriots
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Loyalists
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No one
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Detailed explanation-1: -Colonists had various reasons for whichever side that they chose. Farmers, for example, often chose the side that their landowner supported. Others who might be have a large debt owed to British creditors may have chosen the Patriot side in hopes that their debts would be erased.
Detailed explanation-2: -During the American Revolution, people had to decide which side to support. Colonists for independence from England were usually called revolutionaries or whigs. But some Americans thought that to break away from the British government would not be right; they usually were called loyalists or tories.
Detailed explanation-3: -Some colonists were Loyalists who sided with Britain; the other colonists were Patriots who supported the right to independence. The Second Continental Congress chose Thomas Jefferson to command the Continental Army. The Proclamation of 1763 helped Britain control westward expansion.
Detailed explanation-4: -Loyalists: colonists of the American revolutionary period who supported, and stayed loyal, to the British monarchy. Patriots: colonists who rebelled against British control during the American Revolution.