USA HISTORY

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783

BRITISH LOYALISTS VS AMERICAN PATRIOTS DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Writer from Massachusetts whose poems and plays cleverly attacked the Loyalists and encouraged colonists to become Patriots.
A
Ben Franklin
B
Mercy Otis Warren
C
Lord Dunmore
D
Samuel Adams
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Mercy Otis Warren was a poet, playwright and pamphleteer during the American Revolution. During the years before the American Revolution, Warren published poems and plays that attacked royal authority in Massachusetts and urged colonists to resist British infringements on colonial rights and liberties.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mercy Otis Warren was a published poet, political playwright and satirist during the age of the American Revolution-a time when women were encouraged and expected to keep silent on political matters.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1790, she published Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous, a collection that included two verse dramas. But by far Warren’s most important literary work was History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution (1805), a 3-volume history she had begun in the late 1770s.

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