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The King would call together his subjects and mete out justice. The King would call together his subjects and mete out justice.
sweetlips
The King would call together his subjects and mete out justice.
The Quakers in Pennsylvania refused to support any declaration of independence unless the Congress first attempted to resolve the situation peacefully. The Quakers were very influential and managed to get a majority of Congress to agree to send a polite note pleading for peace and negotiation. (The King's response was to angrily denounce the Congress and call for execution of anyone associated with the independence movement.) The King definitely did not want the Olive Branch. The Olive Branch Petition did apparently have an influence on some in Parliament, who continued to make pleas to the King for the next 5 years while the war raged on.
Yankees ,patriots, traitors, rebels ,etc.
Yankees ,patriots, traitors, rebels ,etc.
Loyalists were loyal to King George and Britain while patriots wanted complete separation from the crown.
It depended on the era. For example, during World War II, the British referred to traitors and collaborators as "quislings." During the Revolutionary War, the American colonists fighting for independence were in fact still British, but the government called the ones who remained loyal to the King "loyalists" and the ones who wanted independence "rebels," which was not a word with positive connotations.
A rascal!
Loyalists or Tories.
solidersANSWER:Some of the names the British called the colonists would include: Patriots, traitors, disloyal, rebels (and yes, even soldiers).
British would call them traitors.
Loyalists
The people of America were angry. The colonists did not like to pay high taxes to the King of England. They did not pay the taxes. The King of England sent an army to America. The army tried to make the colonists pay the taxes. The colonists wanted to be free from England. They started to fight the soldiers of the English army in 1775. The Americans started a war with England. We call it the Revolutionary War. George Washington was the leader of the American army. France helped the Americans during the War. The Americans won the war in 1783. They were free from England.
King George I, who became King of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 August 1714, was born in Hanover. Hanover was at that time part of the Holy Roman Empire and is in what we now call Germany.
They are colonists.