USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The majority of Patriots were found in the revolutionary hotbed town of Boston.

Detailed explanation-2: -Many Patriots live in the New England Colonies, especially Massachusetts. Most Loyalists who opposed independence tended to be wealthy landowners, Anglican clergymen, or people with close business or political ties to Britain. There was a high concentration of Loyalists in New York City and in the Southern Colonies.

Detailed explanation-3: -Loyalists were most numerous in the South, New York, and Pennsylvania, but they did not constitute a majority in any colony. New York was their stronghold and had more than any other colony.

Detailed explanation-4: -In recent years, there have been several detailed studies to better understand colonial attitudes towards independence. In general, these studies found that staunch loyalists constituted about 20% of the population or 400, 000 people, while committed Patriots accounted for about 40% of the population or 800, 000 people.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Boston Massacre (known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street) was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers shot five people of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles.