Loyalist

During the war, Loyalists were not respected by Patriots at all because they were going against America. When the Patriots won the war Loyalists had their land taken by the American government, were exiled, went to England by choice, or reestablished themselves in America as a devoted citizen (Doc B). Women after the war were seen…

Many times the Tories were harassed by the Patriots. (Doc B) The strong dislike of the Tories would lead to increasing tensions in the colonies and would increase resentment of the British and of the loyalists. It was until years after the war that the Federalists wanted to make amends with the British and wanted to increase trading with them as well. This would lead to a treaty that would make the British and the USA unlikely allies. (Doc F) The analysis…

It’s March 22, 1765.Today, my family and all the colonists had a new tax that required us to pay money on every printed piece of paper we used. Many of the colonists are angered and extremely unhappy with the Parliament. I live with my sister Anne and my parents Elizabeth and Eli Henry. We all live on a farm in Boston. My father is a farmer, but the problem is that we don’t make enough money with our crops. While my father works on the farm,my mother helps watch over me and my sister Anne.…

Bland was annoyed with how Virginia’s were helpless he tried to convince his neighbors to join the army, but that did not work he could only watch as the British continuously invade Virginia. In Jasanoff’s essay “Loyalists in Exile Highlight the Wider British Empire” she discusses how loyalists when to different areas of the British Empire to escape the United States because it was no longer controlled by the British. In the places that they fled to they brought American influence with them.…

her city, New York. When her father finally decides that it is safe enough Sophia and her mother to go back they start out to their old home. On the way they see many rebel and loyalist soldiers they try to stay away, but they end up being in the wrong place at the wrong time. They were just walking when they spotted loyalist soldiers about to hang a rebel soldier. Sophia stepped out from where she was hiding and pleaded them to have some mercy for the poor rebel, but they just told her that if…

Throughout the time of the American Revolution, individuals of the colonies were split into three categories: Patriots, Loyalists, and Neutrals. The Patriots supported liberty and freedom, whilst Loyalists believed that living under the statutes of the British Parliament were just. If I was present during the Revolution, I would have been a Patriot because I believe in the independence of nations. Having to live under certain decrees without any say is a demeaning way to live life. Based on the…

new tax that King George III, the King of Great Britain, imposed on the colonist. It was called the Stamp Act. It imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies. Everyone was taking sides. The two most vocal groups in the colonies were the loyalists and the patriots. Did the British have the right to tax the colonist just to raise money to pay for the French Indian War, or did the colonist have a right to fair representation in Parliament? So much has happened since then.…

Francis Marion was born on February 26, 1732, he was one of six children. His mother and father were Gabriel and Charlotte Marion. He was born on his parents’ plantation and lived there for the first five years of his life in Berkley County, South Carolina. Then his family settled down on a plantation near Georgetown, South Carolina. Although he wasn’t very educated, he was one of the great partisan leaders of the American Revolutionary War, also known as the War for Independence. He was…

of the American Revolutionary War from focusing on the north to moving down south. The strategy was to defend the West Indies and capture the tobacco and rice growing areas in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. Another strategy was to raise for loyalist troops to help fight the Patriots. At the time this may have seemed like a good idea, but with the French becoming a more important role in the war Britain underestimated the Patriot French alliance. The war in the south was about trying to…

War. Some consider it as a necessary evil, something that we need but don’t want. Others think of war as horrendous violence and death that is unnecessary. On one hand, war has the ability to erase injustice, end tyranny, and bring freedom and liberty to people’s lives. On the other hand, war is a brutal, violent, and tragic tool, and there is always a different way to settle conflicts, such as negotiation. The novel My Brother Sam is Dead, written by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher…