Patriots Vs Loyalists Research Paper

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Colonial Living: Patriots vs. Loyalists What’s going on, Well today people are deciding to either join the patriots or the loyalists. Supposing that you were wondering what a patriot is, it is a new group that is forming inside of the colonies that want independence from the british. The patriots are going against the redcoats who are also known as the british. Now the citizens are starting to rebel against the redcoats and are starting to take them down one by one. They do this by waiting till they’re in range they fire. People are starting to do this because they don’t want part in the british government and they weren’t being treated fairly by them. Most of the famous patriots at this time are George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. George is now a general for the patriots and Thomas Jefferson has been warning people and writing things to convince the citizens to join them. Schmoop.com said, “John Adams (1735-1826) was, along with Thomas Jefferson, one of only two signers of the Declaration of Independence later to become president.” …show more content…

There has been rumors that a man named Benjamin Franklin gave advice to the general that the French would try and ambush him, but general Braddock was used to fighting the Europeans and he didn’t think the french would. Another famous loyalist is Benedict Arnold who was a general of the continental army who went to fight for the british.According to historic Valley Forge "Arnold was one of a number of Benedict Arnolds including an early governor of Rhode Island and his father.” There was a few good loyalists and these were some of them. were some loyalists and if you’re not familiar with loyalists they were the people who still wanted to stay part of the british and stay in their government

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