The Whig Party didn’t have its origins in the United States. In fact, the Whig Party was created in England. Similar to the United States having the Republican and Democratic Party, England also had two parties at the time. The two parties were the Tories and the Whigs. The loyalists were the “Tories” whom in America were against Congress (Hoffer, 449). The Tories referred the “rebels” (also called the revolutionaries) as against the oath and taking arms against the king of England (Hoffer, 449). The loyalist’s belief was very conservative.
The Patriots were people revolting against the English monarchy. Patriots or rebels fought for what they believed was right, and look where we are now. On the other hand, Sam’s father was a Loyalist. Loyalists were the ones fighting for the king. They believed that the king had the power and that's how they thought it should stay.
The American Revolution, also known as the American Revolutionary War, was a war between the Great Britain and the 13 British colonies. This war, took place between the years 1775 through 1783. This war was caused by many reasons. One of them being due to the French and Indian war, which made the complication between the British empire and the colonists of north America increase furthermore. But did you know, the true meaning behind the loyalist
As soon as the first shots were fired at the Battle of Lexington and Concord were fired, the American Revolution was inescapable. Tensions between the colonists and the British were constantly on the rise, with the colonists basically looking for an excuse to go to war. They had long been protesting taxation without representation, for example, dumping tea into the Boston harbor after an the Tea Act was passed. This only led to an increased British military presence in the colonies, such as King George III’s closing of the Boston harbor until the colonists paid for the tea. As a result of the constant discord between the colonists and the British government, the patriots only felt a stronger need to fight for their rights.
On the other hands, the Loyalists were a portion of the population in the American Colonies who wanted remain loyal to the King or stay part of Britain. One reason why people became Patriots was because in 1765 the parliament of England passed the Stamp Act; this Act imposed all American colonist to pay taxes on every piece of printed paper including Legal documents, Newspaper, and Ships papers. The law was offensive to the Patriots, that felt that
Loyalist: "I feel that my army fought well and fought so well I heard it was easy." Patriot: "It was not easy because you had guns" Loyalist: "Even so you just through snow balls and rocks at us witch did nothing." Patriot: " Oh stop, oh stop what about the Boston Tea Party, why did you guys have to raise the prices of tea?" Loyalist: "We did it for us so we could have more money for our army, and how you could have the nerve to go on our ship and dump all that tea that was for you."
The positions of the patriots and the loyalists were very different for many reasons. However there are some similarities between the patriot and loyalists cases. In ways such as the factors of who looks to be winning, who’s win would the British colonists benefit most from, and the importance of the question; American liberty or loyalty to the king. Much like the patriots the loyalists have quite a few reasons to be loyalists instead of patriots.
Gross gives us a good depiction of who these people were, and how they were not much different than us today. The people of concord were not eager to start a revolution, but they did what they thought was right. Scope: The time period that this book is written in is before, during, and after the Revolutionary War. The Revolutionary War was from 1775 to about 1783.
Document 3: The Continental Congress Explains the Need to Fight, the colonist emphasize there logic that if they do not fight they will lose their land and their freedom and become slaves. They believed this was unjust because their ancestors had earned and there sons and daughters who will come after them should have it too. Even though there were some risk to being a loyalist there a risk to every decision that is made. However in in Document 2: A loyalist is Tarred and Feathered, the man who was attacked was old and weak. Some tax collectors who were ambushed may have been able to ward of their attackers or have escaped them.
There were many goals that the colonists had in waging the Revolutionary War, and an innumerable amount of those goals contributed to America’s political system. A few of their goals were to convert into a country free of a king, become independent, get rid of all loyalists, equal rights between men and women, and slaves wanted to be freed. A great deal of these goals were accomplished, although they were not very easy to carry out. “The nearer any government approaches to a republic the less business there is for a king,” (Document 1). One of the colonists’ main goals was to be free of the king of England.
Loyalists- Were colonists in the new world who remained loyal to the British king during the American Revolutionary War. This was a significant factor because it gave the British key advantages in increasing their soldier count, provided housing and supplies, and strategic territorial advantages in loyalist areas such as new York City that offered a vast harbor for the British navy. 4. Benedict Arnold- A man who gave great service to his country in the early stages of the Revolutionary War.
Loyalist were the group of Americans that were most likely to remain loyal to England. The loyalist were about 20% of the colonies population and even though they believed King George III wasn’t doing anything wrong some of them even fought in the war against England. Loyalist believed in John Locke’s theory about natural rights and limited government. The loyalist just wanted peace between America and King George III. Loyalist lived all over the colonies.
Brown argued “the Loyalist leadership could not remotely match the Whigs in talent,” and that their fear of chaos during the Revolution caused “some” to be timid. Brown also accused the Loyalists of having a “fatal complacency” on British aid. Nelson was critical of Loyalist leaders, notably Joseph Galloway, who Nelson called “fearfully inept.” More broadly, Nelson contended that the Loyalist leadership lacked continuity and failed to produce any national leaders, or unite behind any convincing ideals, all of which contributed to their failure in opposing the Revolution.
The Republican party was then created by a large number of former Whig party members and Democrats who did want to support
King James II made the situation worse by increasing religious tension and conflict. It should be understood that the Glorious Revolution was a well orchestrated elite coup d’état where William of Orange was invited to intervene by the establishment. The Whigs were a political faction and later a party that supported a constitutional monarchy and was against absolute rule. The Tories supported Stuart kings such as James II who aligned to Catholicism. The overthrow of King James II was supported by Whigs and most Tories.
By putting greater power in the hands of Parliament, political parties became vastly more important. Two major parties existed during the time period in question: the Whig Party and the Tory Party. These two parties prove important when analyzing Walpole’s political progression in the Whig Party in the decade from 1712 to 1721. From 1701 to 1712, Walpole slowly rose in power in the Whig party. Appointed to Secretary at War in 1708, Walpole felt he finally held a position of power within the Whig Party.