Patriots and Loyalists Disagree

Throughout the history of the United States of America, several important event occurred. Before their independence, the colonists were divided. In one side we have the patriots, who wanted to declare themselves independent from Britain. And in the other side we had the loyalists, who were loyal to Britain and were opposed to the independence. Since their thoughts were different they had several contradictions that produce chaos. When the events became worst and the patriots started focussing on independence, they had several disagreements that led to revolution.

  So most colonist supported Continental Congress and Boycotts of British imports, but the majority were loyalist. The loyalist favored the laws and order but they were afraid of the patriots. They would view committees illegal and brutal. They would picture patriots as vermin. This produced tension between both of them and problems. These disagreements caused many skirmishes which killed many people.

  Many loyalist oppose British taxes, but they had to obey parliament and the crown. Loyalist feared the resistance would lead to a deadly war and they doubted that the colonist would be able to defeat an empire but they were wrong. Jonathan Sewel who was a loyalist was talking with John Adams who was a lawyer. Jonathan Sewel warned Adams saying that they (loyalist) would not change. One fifth of the colonist remained loyalist while many more wanted to remain neutral. Loyalist were seen as wealthy people but most of them were regular farmers who feared oppression of patriots. Loyalist would hate what patriots would do to them. The Indians sided with the loyalist because patriots would take there land. 

  This was the reasons why the loyalist and patriots disagreed. Many problems happened because of these disagreements. Basically, since the patriots wanted to separate from Britain and the loyalist didn't think that it was necessary, patriots wanted them to be part of this so they fought.

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