1. American Revolution
... -warm." (Adams, 110) Due to these opposing forces within the colonies, the American "Revolution" could be more accurately described as a civil war, pitting neighbor against neighbor in a brutal struggle to define the economy and politics of new nation. Even after the war, it took years to settle the old hatreds and to have once again a newly independent nation united. All throughout ... who tried to stay neutral. The given definition of a "loyalist" is "a person who professed a continuing allegiance to the King of Great Britain." (Raphael, 145) However, this classification is both too va...
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