Minutemen. They were to be ready at a moments notice.
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Colonists who opposed Britain and wanted freedom were patriots. Colonists who were loyal to Britain were loyalists or Tories. Most of the colonists wanted or didn't want freedom, so there really was no need to a name.
One reason that the Patriot colonists wanted freedom from Britain was so that they could have religious freedom. They want to worship in their own way.
the colonists wanted religious freedom from Britain which is a monarchy, meaning that the country was ruled by the king (King George III) hope this helped :)
they started telling them what to do and they wanted their freedom
The American colonists, whose army was led by George Washington, wanted to gain their freedom from Great Britain.
The American colonists, whose army was led by George Washington, wanted to gain their freedom from Great Britain.
Britain wanted money.
Freedom of religion was the freedom that the colonists of Maryland wanted.
The colonists wanted freedom from a king who allowed them no representaion yet overtaxed them. The British wanted to keep "their" colony.
colonists The person who answered before me is purely mistaken. There were three types of people in north America with relations in the revolutionary war. The Patriots wanted freedom. The Loyalists were with Britain. And the Quakers wanted peace.
It's patriotic, tells how we colonists wanted our freedom from Britain so bad we were willing to die for the future generations, and explains what the war was like back then when colonists (or Patriots) were fighting for freedom.