NovaNet Answer: They feared a destructive war.
the king to rule them
How do you think British colonists evolved from being loyal British citizens to revolutionaries? Why?
Loyalists are people who remain loyal to the established ruler or government of a country ( I.e. colonist of the American Revolutionary period who supported the British)
Because they wanted to be loyal to the king.
Benedict Arnold thought James Lafayette would remain loyal to the British because he wanted to be free from slavery so was trustworthy to the British.
Not necessarily. A loyalist was an American colonist who wanted to remain loyal to Great Britain.
A loyalist wanted to remain loyal to England, they did not support the American Revolution and some fought along side the British Regulars.
Torries
They felt they can be taxed since they were still British citizens and they shouldn't get all worked up about it. They were paying sort of like a sales tax.
NovaNet Answer: They feared a destructive war.
the king to rule them
A person who wanted the colonies to remain part of the british empire
if your talking American history the loyalists were the group of "Americans" that wanted to remain loyal to the crown (the british empire/England) and not become and independent nation, while the patriots wanted to break from the crown and create the united states of America
Although both parties were Americans, loyalists wanted the colonies to remain loyal to the British, while patriots wanted to split from the empire and have the colonies become their own nation. The patriotic fought the British in the American Revolution, while loyalists served as spies against the patriots.
The loyalists were the people who wanted to remain loyal to the British King and to Britain itself. Although many school books do not mention it (it's much nicer to paint the colonist rebels as the 'true' representatives of colonist feelings) the truth is that the rebels were initially only a minority of the colonists and most of them had no desire to make a break with Britain.
In the American revolutionary war, the people who remained loyal to the king were called Loyalists or Tories.