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06 January, 2021 - 03:35 PM
(14 April, 2019 - 09:52 AM)Uramasa Wrote: Show More American public opinion was strongly divided in the spring of 1775 on the question of independence from Great Britain. Americans were divided into three camps: Loyalists, Patriots, and Neutrals. Loyalists, also known as Tories, wanted the American colonies to stay loyal to King George III. While Loyalists could be found in every colony, they were especially powerful in the southern colonies of Georgia and South Carolina and the important, pivotal colonies of Pennsylvania and New York. The Patriots, also known as the Radicals, led by men like John Adams of Massachusetts and Patrick Henry of Virginia, contemplated the possibility of a complete break with Great Britain. The Patriots were especially strong in New England and also in Virginia. A number of people were simply undecided on the question of independence and were called Neutrals. Powerful men, like John Dickinson of Pennsylvania, fell into this camp and held out hope there could be reconciliation even though open fighting had broken out in April 1775. A number of events in the sixteen months after the historic skirmishes at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts in April 1775 would move many of America’s Neutrals into the camp of the Patriots and sway the Second Continental Congress to seek a total break with Great Britain by July 1776. |
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