Patriots Vs Loyalists Analysis

After the victory towards French in the Seven Years War, the political and social relationship of the colonists and Great Britain had shifted to a different direction. The colonists began to think of themselves as Americans. At that time, The British government felt that the colonies had become quite independence, and they wanted their colonies to start paying tax in order to help England pay the national debt. Not only were Americans forced to pay direct taxes, but they were also obliged to involve in strict regulatory acts such as Sugar Act and Currency Act. Sugar Act (1764) strongly affected American’s trading in which their oceanic vessels and cargos could be inspected by the British Navy and might be confiscated if the paper and the goods that being transported were in disagreement. Currency Act (1764) restricted colonial governments to print their own paper money. These two acts put some colonists in anger but they were not enough to result in civil disorder until the Stamp Act was passed. The reason that the colonists resisted government authority with the passage of the Stamp Act (1765) was because the Stamp Act collected taxes in all type of papers including newspapers, playing cards, licenses, and stamps. This outraged many colonists especially the educated and

The movie, The Patriot, is the story of a South Carolina plantation owner, Benjamin Martin, who leads a local militia against British troops in the South during the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. Martin, who is a widower with six children and a veteran of the French and Indian War, wants nothing to do with the war until a brutal British Colonel, William Tavington, kills one of his sons and takes his eldest son, a member of the Continental Army, prisoner. Martin, who’s character is loosely based on Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, uses guerrilla warfare to cut British supply lines and attack outposts in an attempt to slow General

From the accounts, I find the loyalists account more believable than the Patriots account. The account begins by narrating the entrance of the king’s troops in the town in 1768. This entrance had one meaning, those people who referred to themselves as sons of liberty would soon lose their freedom. The arrival of the king’s troop implies the abolition of the democratic government. Parliament would not have any meaningful use. Its deliberations would not be important because the resulting laws would not be binding. It was necessary for people to revolt against the king. This revolution would earn back their freedom. They would once again have a democratic government.

Being subjected to public humilation in front of massive crowds with harsh punishments, the loyalists found themselves in a tough predicament between the radicals and their independence from Britian while the loyalists thought differently. Most of the loyalists found their properties vandalized, looted and burned by angry mobs of men. There was no doubt that the patriots of the thirteen colonies controlled the public discourse. There was bound to be a revolt against the British by the patriots because they didn’t agree against the policies imposed by the British parliament. The patriots of “The New World” have a much more logical reasoning than the loyalists because they felt that the British parliament was in

In the past, while learning about the American Revolution I had always thought of America as a united front. The war between the Patriots and Loyalists could even be compared to the war between America and Britain. The Patriots were not justified in abusing and expelling the Loyalists. In the actions the Patriots took against the Loyalists, they violated their unalienable rights, these actions also allowed for history to repeat itself through the civil war in 1861.

I know this because in my revolutionary war research I found that both the colonists and the loyalists were fighting for freedom from something like taxes or the king’s power. Evidence I have to support this is; slaves, colonists, and loyalists all hated having taxes on tea, stamps, molasses, and other goods imported from Britain. Another piece of evidence I have is in my book club book Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, when Isabel was pretending Curzon was her brother, and was sneaking food in for him, she also was offered a job by the prison guard. She pretended Curzon was dead so she could take him out and save him, but also get back Ruth, her little sister. Isabel was fighting for her and her sister’s rights and freedom from slavery. This proves that these people were fighting for their rights, others were fighting for their lives.

From 1763 to 1783, ideas about American independence evolved from wanting representation and say in government to wanting full independence from Britain. An idea is defined as a thought or concept present because of a conscious mental understanding, awareness, or activity. The idea of self-government, harsh British rule and law of nature arise during 1763-1772 due to enlightenment ideas and taxation by Britain, these ideas lead to change in the concept of American independence. By 1775, different factors have separated Patriots and Loyalists, again, evolving and influencing the idea of American independence. Patriotic and Loyalist separation was still present, but, by 1776, the American Revolution had again changed the concept of American independence.

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No matter what side you would have taken you would have been considered a traitor to a certain degree. I would have to say that I would probably have been in the same shoes as Crevecoeur and others at the initial start of the Revolutionary War. But as the war progressed or as I further reflected on why the war began I would have to say that I would have ultimately sided with the

Only a tiny fraction of the books written on the American Revolution are devoted to the loyalists — the residents of the 13 colonies who chose to leave their homes rather than become citizens of the new republic. Such a nation-bound approach to the writing of American history implies that the lives of those who left were not significant. Yet they were, and Maya Jasanoff, who teaches history at Harvard, has provided a richly informative account of those who made the choice to embrace imperial Britain. As earlier historians of the Revolution have pointed out, the loyalists tended to have strong connections to the imperial administration, belong to the Anglican Church and possess close business or family ties to Britain. But not all who left fitted

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To start with, the military aspect of the movie was accurate in its treatment of slaves, and the depicted actions of soldiers. The Patriot was correct in showing that both sides committed war atrocities. The colonists when they were shown killing surrendering British soldiers, and the British when they burned people alive in the church. In the article by Slate, it states that both the British and Americans did commit war crimes by killing those who surrendered, but there was no mention of any general locking civilians in a church and burning it. Another way The Patriot was correct, was in the way it depicted the treatment of slaves. The movie shows one slave being forcibly enlisted by his master. Later, he learns of the freedom and payment he may earn shall he continue to serve in the Continental Army. At the end of the movie it