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Loyalists in the American RevolutionDanae Aslidis, Emily Krouk, and Sabrina Sukhin |
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King George III
loyalists: King George III is doing the best he can with a difficult situation. He is not a cruel or unjust ruler. Why are the colonists not able to understand that?
getpatriotic: King George III is an incompetent ruler. His government pays no attention to its people.
patriots: Parliament in England is only concerned with England. They do not care about the colonies' best interests. They are taxing us to gain money.
loyalists: Of course they are taxing us to gain money. They just fought a war for us and lost thousands of pounds—the least we can do is help them.
patriots: They have forced us to keep British soldiers in our own homes. How do you expect us to support their cost of living if we can barely support our own families?
getpatriotic: No one should have to pay a tax unless they choose the representative who helps determine that tax. They have unfairly taxed us. They have taxed us without representation. No taxation without representation! Since England does not have the right to tax us, then they also do not have the right to make other laws that affect us.
tories: We, the colonists, should pay our fair share to England. We have wealth, religious freedom, and opportunity for all. We are far better off than other countries. Not only that, but Britain fought our war. Without them we would have to go back to Britain and lose all our hope, wealth, and all the opportunities we came to the colonies for in the first place.
getpatriotic: Britain has no right to control what is taxed!
loyalists: If you colonists were not so stubborn, maybe you would not have dumped all of that tea and taken advantage of a great deal! The only one the tea tax affected is illegal merchants, who by the way are against the law because they are smuggling goods into the colonies.
getpatriotic: Morally, we are better than England. We know the difference between right and wrong. England's government is corrupt. They are the ones ordering their soldiers to shoot innocent colonists on the streets.
loyalists: All you Patriots do is injure people and destroy property. You are not morally better than England at all.
patriots: They have made arrests based on their own wishes instead of laws. They have limited our rights to freedom of speech, of press, and of assembly. They have taken away our rights to property by making us quarter troops.
tories: The Patriots are just a bunch of hypocrites. They object to taxes so they do not have to pay them. If they really wanted equality and freedom, they would have established it in their own colonies first.
patriots: They have stopped us from spreading further west. They have not helped us with our Indian problems. Was that not what the war was about?
loyalists: We are part of Britain. We came from Britain. Since the colonies are separate from each other, they are clearly not capable of governing themselves.
getpatriotic: So you think that we are not self-sufficient?
tories: We need the protection that England can give us. They protected us in the French and Indian War. They can also protect us in future conflicts. Britain has the best army out there; even if we were to rebel the British soldiers would demolish us. They are one of the most powerful nations in the world.
loyalists: England and the colonies all have the same roots. A war against England is like having a war against our own family. We all share the same blood.
