The American Revolution (also referred to the Revolutionary war or the Declaration of Independence) was a major war between Great Britian and the 13 colonies of Delaware, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Bay Colony (which included Maine), New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. It was the very war that made the beautiful United States as we know it. This war lasted from 1765 to 1783.We know of this was that the brave colonists fought off the "evil" Britian from huge taxes and misrepresentation in the English parliament. That is partly true but many facts you thought about the war is a bit deceiving. One of those many misinterpreted ideas is about the loyalist. Before we get into this, we need some backround information. Not everyone in the 13 colonies wanted revolution from Britian. This led many of them to move to British North America which is the land wear present day Canada and Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Dakota. In this case study, we will go over and teach about the reasons and examples of why the loyalist did not support the revelution.

Boston in America was very different in the 17th century. During the years before the war, crime in the city jumped up very fast and suddenly. This is because of the Revelution. During this event, there were two group of people. Patriots who were the people who supported the revelution and supported it. People like George Washington, Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and countless other who dedicated themselves to get freedom from Britian. There was also loyalist, who were loyal to the crown and Great Britian and who did not generally support the revelution. These two groups generally did not agree and often fought on the street leading to bloodshed. Loyalist were attacked on the street with buckets of feathers dumped on them. After the public found out that the Governor of Massachusetts was a loyalist and supported the crown, patriots burned his house down. Now, you are probably wondering why the patriots were very violent towards the loyalists. This is because well… they were patriots. They supported their country and they thought that the loyalists were a threat. They thought that they were ruining the country. Another reason is that of the event of the Boson massacre. On March 5, 1770, there was gunfire in a Boston square leaving many people dead. Some people were protesting and throwing rocks and injuring British troops at a government building and one thing led to another and they shot. Many people died and the newspapers entirely blamed the British even though the patriots did have a role of involvement in the violence. Because of the violence of the massacre, many people started to hate the peaceful loyalists because they thought they were aligned with the British troops even though they didn’t necessarily support them. The news propaganda also played a role into why the loyalist were harassed. The harassment certainly played a role of why loyalist left and the effects on them.

Another reason why many loyalists left the colonies was because an interesting offer from Britain. When someone is moving or leaving, there are two points experts investigate in why. They are called pull and push factors. Push factors is when someone is forcing or harassing and bothering you to the point of you leave. Push factors are also where it is out of your control and you must leave. Pull factors is where you get something out of the move, or you get rewarded and/or a positive impact when you move or leave. For example, you are probably siting in a room right now. A push factor is for example, there is a fire, and you are going out or moving that is out of your control. Pull factor would be there is an ice cream truck outside and you are going in your will to leave. Loyalist leaving had both a push and pull impacts. They were certainly push out with the patriots in the previous paragraph. Here, there is a pull factor. Britian offered the loyalist a free transportation to the new destination if they were to move away. This was to the response to the harassment of the loyalists. Many loyalists wanted to leave but could not since they could not afford it. They were robbed and their house even burned down so there were in a very awkward position in the few decades and always living in fear in the 13 colonies. The offer attracted many loyalists. This pull factor helped the loyalist and supported them and could certainly have been implemented to the expulsion of the Acadians after the treaty of Utrecht.

These reasons and points (Harassments on the streets by patriots and the free move and transportation offer from Britain) played a huge role of why thousands of loyalists moved to other British colonies and mostly British Canada (At the time know as British North America).

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