HIS311Y1 Lecture Notes - Lower Canada, Royal Entry, Queen'S Privy Council For Canada
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Taxation of the colonies act 1778 (a declaratory act) We start at the end of the american revolution in the 1780"s. first of all there is a the definition of a loyalist. They came from all of the 13 colonies from geroge up to new hampshire. There were males and females amongst the loyalist. The question is how did they end up in exile in canada: They were strongly impressed by the power of the british empire and were proud to be british. Being british conveyed status, identity, and linkage with the old country. it is part of a large conception of personal identity. They did not like being pushed around. If you considered the revolution involved threats of violence, law breaking, it is possible to say the loyalist were people who craved security and order as represented in law. To them revolutionaries were overthrowing the basis of society and they did not choose to go along with it.
