What american colinists chose to fight for their freedom?
The Sons of Liberty
Patriots(:
The colonists would be freed from Britain's rules and would get to govern themselves.
After the battle of Saratoga, France joined with America in the fight against Britain. Spain joined the fight (on the American colonists' side) afterwards, hoping to gain independence from British rule.
The colonists were fighting for their independance from Great Britain.
France
That depends on whose side you're on! The British and those who were loyal to Britain (Loyalists or Tories) would have called those colonists rebels or traitors. However, in American history, colonists who were sympathetic to the fight for independence were called Patriots. About 1/3 of all colonists supported England, another 1/3 were Patriots who wanted independence, and another 1/3 attempted to remain neutral.
To convince the colonists to fight for independence
The Sons of Liberty
Seperatist
We called them 'patriots'. The British called them 'rebels'.
The colonists would be freed from Britain's rules and would get to govern themselves.
They would not gain freedom
Britsh
The patriots were the colonists who wanted to fight for America's independence. America hadn't become a country yet, and that's what the Patruot's were fighting for. To be independent from Britain and to be their own country. The patriots were the colonists who wanted to fight for America's independence. America hadn't become a country yet, and that's what the Patruot's were fighting for. To be independent from Britain and to be their own country.
Britsh
Benjamin Franklin was important to the colonists' fight for independence because he secured help from the French.
England wanted to control them.
In his book "Common Sense," Thomas Paine urged the colonists to seek independence from British rule, arguing that monarchy was wrong and that the colonies should establish a democratic government. He called for a complete separation from Great Britain and encouraged the colonists to fight for their freedom.