Commonly referred to as Loyalists or "Tories".
Loyalists
Edmund Burke Edmund Burke Please add: William Pitt and John Wilkes who were very pro-American colonist
Loyalist
The colonist were not being recognized in parliament and no longer lived in England...........basicly the wanted a better goverment. The King was unfairly taxing the colonist which meant that they were loosing money to the king and becoming poorer.
Native Americans.
Loyalist. They were loyal to the king.
Loyalists
Tories or Loyalists.
Patriots
What were coloniests that supported the dependence called?
The name of the people in the English colonies on the northern American mainland is colonist. Those that supported the revolution were also called rebels and those that supported the King were called loyalists.
France
what fraction of the colonists supported the revolution against the British
The Colonist(s) who supported the British Crown in the Revolutionary War were known as Loyalists (quite easy to remember, eh?) One famous Patriot-turned-Loyalist was Benedict Arnold. <><><> The term Tory, Royalist, or King's Men was also used.
The loyalist were colonist that supported the crown (England).
France
A patriot. An American colonist that supported Great Britain was known as a Tory.
* the colonist were all dirty ingrates