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The Sugar Act
Patriots: The king had not right to create a tax without the consultation of the people it affected. The colonies are already poor enough without the government taking money from them. Loyalists: The merchants are throwing a fit for nothing.The tax isn't the big and it's to pay for the debt that was created while the King was protecting the colonies. -
Stamp Act
Patriots: Colonists shouldn't have to pay for something that has been free for many years. Loyalists: The tax, again, was imposed to help pay debts created in the protection of the colonies. The colonists need to start taking responsibility and stop leaving everything to the mother country. -
Boston Massacre
Loyalists: The British troops were just trying to protect themselves. The attacking colonists had rocks and had been provoking the troops. Patriots: The Redcoats opened fire on a group of Colonists. This shows how careless the government is about the colonies. How the King will sacfrifice colonist lives if it means keeping the colonies in check. -
The Boston Tea Party
Patriots: If the King continued with taxes without the feedback of the colonies, then the colonists would make sure there were consequences. Loyalists: The Whigs are rebels who have no respect for the Royal crown. -
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First Continental Congress
Patriots: If the colonies aren't united there will be no chage and England will contiue to bully them into submission. Loyalists: The Whigs are meeting up secretly and breaking laws in their plot to destroy the bond between the mother coutnry and the colonies. -
Lexington and Concord
Patriots: England still continues to refuse the colonies simple rights so it is better if the colonies fight for their independence so they can finally grow like they should. Loyalists: The Rebels are crazy if they believe they can beat Great Britain. The rest must remain loyal to the mother country since they were living perfectly okay with the status quo. -
The Second Continental Congress
Patriots: If the colonists want to win they need to be united under good leadership. One that they can trust to lead them on the road to independence. Loyalists: Those Whigs are breaking royal law and conducting secret meeting to plot the takedown of the crown. They're extremely ungrateful and should be punished for the disrespect of the King and the Royal family -
Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" Published
Patriots: The King has never been truthful. He continued to deny the colonists of basic rights and kept the colonies from growing. The English continue to make unecessary wars and there is just too much distance to continue being subdued by Great Britain. Loyalists:The lawless mobs continue to spread lies and hatred to the unsuspecting colonists. They've severed the family bond and will not win this war against the power Great Britain. -
Decleration of Independence
Patriots: The King has comitted too many wrongs against the colonies for them to continue to be under English rule. Loyalists: At this point many Loyalists had gone back to Great Britain but after the Colonies had won the war the stayed in America and tried to intigrate themselves back into society.