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True, only 33 percent of the colonists actually supported the fight for Independence during the American Revolutionary War.
40 to 45 percent of colonists were Patriots, colonists who supported the Revolutionary War. 20 to 30 percent were Loyalists, colonists who wanted to remain loyal to Great Britain. The rest were neutral.
They were known as Loyalists, and more frequently as Tories (plural of Tory).
The revolutionary war was a war between the colonists and Britain. The colonists were fighting for freedom, and Britain was trying to stop them from getting that freedom and independence.
The original reason the colonists fought in the Revolutionary War was to gain their independence from England.
There were some slaves who fought with the colonists and there were free african men in the North who fought with the colonists. A larger majority of slaves fought with the British. It was well known across the colonies that any slave who fought with the British would receive their freedom after the Revolutionary War was over.