... great social movement toward democracy and equality. Many Loyalists fled from the 13 states to Canada. There they strengthened the determination of the Canadians to hold aloof from the United States. Large estates of land had passed from the king, from colonial proprietors (in Pennsylvania and Maryland), and from Loyalists into the hands of the new state governments. Broken up into small tracts, these were ... removed, and a flood of settlers poured into the lands beyond the mountains. State governments had been erected, and the first experiment in national union was in progress. The Amer...

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