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  2. Patriot (American Revolution) - Wikipedia

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    Patriots, also known as Revolutionaries, Continentals, Rebels, or Whigs, were colonists in the Thirteen Colonies who opposed the Kingdom of Great Britain's control and governance during the colonial era, and supported and helped launch the American Revolution that ultimately established American independence.

  3. Loyalist (American Revolution) - Wikipedia

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    They were opposed by the Patriots or Whigs, who supported the revolution, and considered them "persons inimical to the liberties of America." [ 3 ] Prominent Loyalists repeatedly assured the British government that many thousands of them would spring to arms and fight for the Crown.

  4. Loyalists fighting in the American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Colonists who supported the British cause in the American Revolution were Loyalists, often called Tories, or, occasionally, Royalists or King's Men. George Washington's winning side in the war called themselves "Patriots", and in this article Americans on the revolutionary side are called Patriots.

  5. Whigs (British political party) - Wikipedia

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    During the American Revolution, the Whigs were the party more sympathetic to American independence and the creation of a democracy in the United States. By 1784, both the Whigs and Tories had become formal political parties, with Charles James Fox becoming the leader of a reorganized Whig Party arrayed against William Pitt the Younger's new ...

  6. Tory Act of 1776 - Wikipedia

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    Tories subjected to hanging and mobbing without trial while others were tarred and feathered. Before and during the American Revolution , the Colonial Tories sustained eminent admiration for the British Crown , Parliament of Great Britain , and unwavering loyalism for Great Britain's King George III .

  7. List of Loyalists (American Revolution) - Wikipedia

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    William Augustus Bowles (1763–1805), also known as Estajoca, served with the Maryland Loyalist Battalion and was a Maryland-born English adventurer and organizer of Native American attempts to create their own state outside of Euro-American control. [7] [8] [9] Joseph Brant Thayendenegea (1743–1807), Mohawk war leader

  8. American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The American Enlightenment was a critical precursor of the American Revolution. Chief among the ideas of the American Enlightenment were the concepts of natural law, natural rights, consent of the governed, individualism, property rights, self-ownership, self-determination, liberalism, republicanism, and defense against corruption.

  9. Tories (British political party) - Wikipedia

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    Generally, the Tories were associated with lesser gentry, the Church of England and the Episcopal Church in Scotland while Whigs were more associated with trade, money, larger land holders or land magnates and the Nonconformist Protestant churches. Both were still committed to the political system in place at that time.