outline for essay #2 w/o thesis

Outline for the loyalists of North Carolina
1) We Loyal subjects of the great majesty King are subjected to humiliation such as being tarred and feathered and even murder because of our belief that the king will stop the rebal activities and that what he is doing is best for everyone.
a) “But what happened to the Loyalists was similar to what happened in Europe to the Jews during the 2nd World War and would have probably experienced the same fate, had the most venerable of them not fled, (mainly to Canada). The expression ‘Lynch Mob’ comes from the American Patriot Judge Lynch who hung anyone suspected of being a Loyalist with impunity.
The USA had even attempted to cut off a retreat for the Loyalists, by invading Canada with a large force, but a combination of the US troop’s long march through Maine’s wilderness led by Benedict Arnold; Carleton’s defensive tactics and a blizzard fortunately thwarted them.
Those loyalists that didn't flee ran the risk of being dispossessed, tortured or even murdered.” (http://www.redcoat.me.uk/#D)
i) We loyalists IN North Carolina are law abiding and rarely react in violence, unlike the patriots who use violence to try to keep us quite and exile.” The Loyalists are demonised or dismissed as simply obtuse and their crime of not wanting to live under mob rule, chaos, insecurity, huge debts and the certainty of an ensuing civil war for the next 100 years or so, has in the eyes of the USA, forfeited them any rights.” .( http://www.redcoat.me.uk/#D)

2) The patriots revolted against the British taxes
a) “No taxation without representation, the rebels said, but they did have representation through the colonial legislature/governor. and were only being asked to pay one twenty-sixth of the tax that a British tax payer paid, who had and were effectively subsidizing them by bearing the burden of their protection.” (http://www.redcoat.me.uk/#D)
i) The patriots didn’t have a right to be upset over such a little tax to pay back the mother country
3) The patriots make us out to be cowardly thumb suckers who don’t have the courage to stand up to Brittan, but most of us are respected colonists.

a) Loyalists came from all walks of life. The majority were small farmers, artisans and shopkeepers. Not surprisingly, most British officials remained loyal to the Crown. Wealthy merchants tended to remain loyal, as did Anglican ministers, especially in Puritan New England. Loyalists also included some blacks (to whom the British promised freedom), Indians, indentured servants and some German immigrants, who supported the Crown mainly because George III was of German origin. . (http://countrystudies.us/united-states/history-33.htm)
i) Loyalists were ordinary folk, not how the patriots depict us.

OTHER TID-BITS OF USEFULL INFO

The one-sided accounts generally given by American historians, websites and film makers don't often mention the Battle of Penobscot Bay, probably because a mere 50 British redcoats held off 3000 Rebels for several days, until the Royal Navy arrived, at which point they embarked their 40 ships, but only to sail up river where they managed to shipwreck themselves and disappear into the Maine's wilderness never to be seen again. http://www.redcoat.me.uk/#D

There were also alternative reasons as to why some people became British Loyalists, for instance, some French, German, and Dutch settlers felt religiously repressed, and they believed that more religious freedom would be provided by the British than their American counterparts. In search of a way out of slavery, several thousand African-Americans joined the British cause, hoping for eventual freedom in return, and the British supported such hopes. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/240212/loyalists_during_the_american_revolution.html?cat=37


Britain then even conceded most of this disputed area on the solemn understanding that the USA would make every effort and to earnestly resolve the lingering Loyalist issues. http://www.redcoat.me.uk/#D

About 100,000 Loyalists left the country, including William Franklin, the son of Benjamin, and John Singleton Copley, the greatest American painter of the period. Most settled in Canada. Some eventually returned, although several state governments excluded the Loyalists from holding public office. In the decades after the Revolution, Americans preferred to forget about the Loyalists. Apart from Copley, the Loyalists became nonpersons in American history. (http://countrystudies.us/united-states/history-33.htm)

Loyalists wanted to pursue peaceful forms of protest because they believed that violence would give rise to mob rule or tyranny. They also believed that independence would mean the loss of economic benefits derived from membership in the British mercantile system. (http://countrystudies.us/united-states/history-33.htm)

and 1/3 of colonists were loyalists