USA HISTORY

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783

THE TREATY OF PARIS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The United States did not agree to give back property belonging to loyalist who fled during the War.
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The United States did not agree to give back property belonging to loyalist who fled during the War. Under the Treaty of Paris 1783, the British had to officially recognize the United States as an Independent nation and each state was recognized as free sovereign and independent states.

Detailed explanation-2: -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. American history brands them as traitors.

Detailed explanation-3: -But loyalists were on the losing side of the Revolution. Their businesses were ransacked, the homes confiscated, and after the war as many as 70, 000 loyalists became refugees, fleeing to British imperial outposts in Canada and the Caribbean, or back to England itself.

Detailed explanation-4: -As the war concluded with Great Britain defeated by the Americans and the French, the most active Loyalists were no longer welcome in the United States, and sought to move elsewhere in the British Empire.

Detailed explanation-5: -It was inspired by the document called the “Book of Negroes.” It was a list of Black Loyalists who fled New York for Canada in 1783, following the American Revolutionary War.

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