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The American Revolution, also known as the American Revolutionary War, was a war between the Great Britain and the 13 British colonies. This war, took place between the years 1775 through 1783. This war was caused by many reasons. One of them being due to the French and Indian war, which made the complication between the British empire and the colonists of north America increase furthermore. But did you know, the true meaning behind the loyalist
On the other hands, the Loyalists were a portion of the population in the American Colonies who wanted remain loyal to the King or stay part of Britain. One reason why people became Patriots was because in 1765 the parliament of England passed the Stamp Act; this Act imposed all American colonist to pay taxes on every piece of printed paper including Legal documents, Newspaper, and Ships papers. The law was offensive to the Patriots, that felt that
By 1781 if you were neutral you were considered a loyalist. The British protects us from multiple situations. The Britain army has 800,000 men, with at least 20,000 volunteers from the colonists. If a rebel officer attacks us the British army with set a target of them alone.
The positions of the patriots and the loyalists were very different for many reasons. However there are some similarities between the patriot and loyalists cases. In ways such as the factors of who looks to be winning, who’s win would the British colonists benefit most from, and the importance of the question; American liberty or loyalty to the king. Much like the patriots the loyalists have quite a few reasons to be loyalists instead of patriots.
As soon as the first shots were fired at the Battle of Lexington and Concord were fired, the American Revolution was inescapable. Tensions between the colonists and the British were constantly on the rise, with the colonists basically looking for an excuse to go to war. They had long been protesting taxation without representation, for example, dumping tea into the Boston harbor after an the Tea Act was passed. This only led to an increased British military presence in the colonies, such as King George III’s closing of the Boston harbor until the colonists paid for the tea. As a result of the constant discord between the colonists and the British government, the patriots only felt a stronger need to fight for their rights.
There were many goals that the colonists had in waging the Revolutionary War, and an innumerable amount of those goals contributed to America’s political system. A few of their goals were to convert into a country free of a king, become independent, get rid of all loyalists, equal rights between men and women, and slaves wanted to be freed. A great deal of these goals were accomplished, although they were not very easy to carry out. “The nearer any government approaches to a republic the less business there is for a king,” (Document 1). One of the colonists’ main goals was to be free of the king of England.
Gross gives us a good depiction of who these people were, and how they were not much different than us today. The people of concord were not eager to start a revolution, but they did what they thought was right. Scope: The time period that this book is written in is before, during, and after the Revolutionary War. The Revolutionary War was from 1775 to about 1783.
Loyalist were the group of Americans that were most likely to remain loyal to England. The loyalist were about 20% of the colonies population and even though they believed King George III wasn’t doing anything wrong some of them even fought in the war against England. Loyalist believed in John Locke’s theory about natural rights and limited government. The loyalist just wanted peace between America and King George III. Loyalist lived all over the colonies.
The Republican party was then created by a large number of former Whig party members and Democrats who did want to support
Loyalist: "I feel that my army fought well and fought so well I heard it was easy." Patriot: "It was not easy because you had guns" Loyalist: "Even so you just through snow balls and rocks at us witch did nothing." Patriot: " Oh stop, oh stop what about the Boston Tea Party, why did you guys have to raise the prices of tea?" Loyalist: "We did it for us so we could have more money for our army, and how you could have the nerve to go on our ship and dump all that tea that was for you."
Loyalists- Were colonists in the new world who remained loyal to the British king during the American Revolutionary War. This was a significant factor because it gave the British key advantages in increasing their soldier count, provided housing and supplies, and strategic territorial advantages in loyalist areas such as new York City that offered a vast harbor for the British navy. 4. Benedict Arnold- A man who gave great service to his country in the early stages of the Revolutionary War.
The loyalists believed in maintaining British rule and opposed the independence movement. The loyalists, as known, did not get their way with the war's outcome, and ended up suffering
The loyalists knew what kind of punishments the British could impose upon them, having been affected by them when the patriots committed imprudent acts—for instance, when patriots decided to destroy hundreds of chests of tea at the Boston Tea Party, the Coercive Acts were passed. These loyalists have seen what Britain has done in response to these kinds of actions, and realized that Britain’s treatment of the colonies would only worsen if the colonists were to lose a war against them. They believed that they would be better off under Britain’s rule. The British wanted to continue ruling over the colonists without the loss of life or resources. On the contrary, many colonists, who called themselves patriots, wanted to break free from Britain and be recognized as an independent nation.
King James II made the situation worse by increasing religious tension and conflict. It should be understood that the Glorious Revolution was a well orchestrated elite coup d’état where William of Orange was invited to intervene by the establishment. The Whigs were a political faction and later a party that supported a constitutional monarchy and was against absolute rule. The Tories supported Stuart kings such as James II who aligned to Catholicism. The overthrow of King James II was supported by Whigs and most Tories.
By putting greater power in the hands of Parliament, political parties became vastly more important. Two major parties existed during the time period in question: the Whig Party and the Tory Party. These two parties prove important when analyzing Walpole’s political progression in the Whig Party in the decade from 1712 to 1721. From 1701 to 1712, Walpole slowly rose in power in the Whig party. Appointed to Secretary at War in 1708, Walpole felt he finally held a position of power within the Whig Party.
