As the Americans surrendered the British, the war made it's way to the end. The Americans became officially independent and the British shipped back to Britain. Now that everything had ended, loyalists and Indians were in a complicated situation because they were allies of the British. The loyalists believed that patriots were dangerous, they were afraid that their mob would attack them at any moment. The Indians in the other hand, were scared of losing they lands and belongings. In this moment the British made a key decision for the future of the loyalists and the Indians. In the following post we are going to talk about how Britain abandon their allies.
First off the British tired to protect the loyalist by setting conditions in the treaty of Paris. There were now new laws and they also had violent mobs so the loyalist were unable to return back and they were also scared. There were about 90,000 loyalist and about 20,000 former slaves. These 20,000 former slaves became refuges so they could not go back home. Many of these salves had to move to Canada while others were enslaved again in the West Indies.
After the revolution it made two new nations that were Canada and American Republic. Later in the future it was called the Dominian of Canada. When the British abandoned the Native Americans they were very stunned. They weren't even mentioned in the Treaty of Paris and this made them vulnerable for revenge of land. The patriots could come back and attack them for land again and they wouldn't be protected anymore.
In this Americans forced Indians to give massive tracks of land in exchange of peace. New settlers moved westwards, more than 100,000 moved to Kentucky and Tennessee in 1790. As you can see the British were very selfish in leaving their allies. The Indians suffered a lot because of this meanwhile the British weren't as bad.
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