Loyalists fought for the British because they were loyal to the crown. The colonists who were rebelling were called Patriots.
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Loyalists were American colonists who supported the English as opposed to Patriots who supported independence from England.
Empire Loyalists
Yes. That's what loyalists were. They believed that it was good to impose a tax for the American Revolution. The people who opposed this were Patriots.
Thomas Hutchinson was the governor of Massachusetts and the other two loyalists are Jonathan Boucher, a religious leader and Lord Dunmore, governor of Virginia.
The loyalists were British subjects living in the future U.S. and did not agree with the creation of the new country. So they left, most of them settling in Canada which was still apart of the British Empire.