THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE TREATY OF PARIS
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allowed to live in the new nation
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forced to sign a document stating their loyalty to America
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enslaved
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exiled from America
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Many had their property confiscated by Patriots. A later wave of roughly 30, 000 Americans, who came to be known as ‘Late Loyalists’ were lured by the promise of land upon swearing loyalty to the King and voluntarily moved to Ontario in the 1790s into the first decade of the 1800s.
Detailed explanation-3: -During the Revolutionary War, many loyalists were treated brutally–€” like the tarred and feathered man in this print. When the war wrapped up, loyalists often found they had to fend for themselves, or flee.
Detailed explanation-4: -[Loyalists] traveled to Canada, they sailed for Britain, they journeyed to the Bahamas and the West Indies; some would venture still farther afield, to Africa and India. But wherever they went, this voyage into exile was a trip into the unknown.