USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Loyalists were American colonists who stayed loyal to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War, often called Tories, Royalists, or King’s Men at the time. They were opposed by the “Patriots", who supported the revolution, and called them “persons inimical to the liberties of America".

Detailed explanation-2: -Loyalists, often called Tories, were loyal to the crown for several reasons. They were mostly upper class and lived in cities and wanted to keep their wealth and land. Many had valuable ties with the British or jobs in the royal government.

Detailed explanation-3: -Loyalists: colonists of the American revolutionary period who supported, and stayed loyal, to the British monarchy.

Detailed explanation-4: -loyalist, also called Tory, colonist loyal to Great Britain during the American Revolution. Loyalists constituted about one-third of the population of the American colonies during that conflict.

Detailed explanation-5: -Most Patriots supported independence because they felt that recent British laws on the American Colonies violated their rights as British citizens (e.g. taxing without consent, quartering soldiers in citizens’ homes, and denying colonists the right to a trial).