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  2. Expulsion of the Loyalists - Wikipedia

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    John Butler was a wealthy landowner before the revolution. He did not share the republicanism of his more independence-minded countrymen. Therefore, during the revolution he formed a guerrilla force to disrupt the Continental (American) Army's supply lines, demoralize settlers, and attack Patriot paramilitary groups not unlike his own. [7]

  3. History of immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

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    The foreign-born population in the U.S. likely reached its minimum around 1815, at approximately 100,000 or 1% of the population. By 1815, most of the immigrants who arrived before the American Revolution had died, and there had been almost no new immigration thereafter. Nearly all population growth up to 1830 was by internal increase.

  4. 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.

  5. Immigration detention - Wikipedia

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    Immigration detention is the policy of holding individuals suspected of visa violations, illegal entry or unauthorized arrival, as well as those subject to deportation and removal until a decision is made by immigration authorities to grant a visa and release them into the community, or to repatriate them to their country of departure.

  6. American immigration to Canada - Wikipedia

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    During and after the American Revolution various loyalists became exiles from the newly forming United States. It's been estimated that a total of 60,000 white settlers left the new United States . The majority, around 33,000 went to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia , another 6,600 went to Quebec , and 2,000 to Prince Edward Island .

  7. History of the United States (1776–1789) - Wikipedia

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    The revolution required American merchants to rebuild connections with global markets, as trade had previously been facilitated under the flag of Great Britain. The high tariffs that were common at the time limited profitability, but high demand for American goods allowed the United States to make up for the economic turmoil of the revolution ...

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    Troopers may detain someone in relation to their immigration status only if they can confirm the person is in the country illegally, the person was previously convicted of a felony in the U.S. and ...

  9. Loyalists fighting in the American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The greater part of Loyalist emigration to Canada went to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. There were at least two waves of American immigration shortly after the Revolution to what is now Ontario, then Upper Canada. The first wave were the wartime Loyalists, who in the early 1780s, went to the southern and eastern parts of the Niagara Peninsula.