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Why Did Loyalists Support The American Revolution?
The main loyalists came from what is now known to be Canada in 1783 and 1784. Most of coastal Nova Scotia received Loyalist settlers, as did Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island then called St. John's Island. The loyalists like me had to decide to support the American Revolution. Colonists for independence from England were named or called revolutionaries or whigs. But some Americans thought that to break away from the British government would not be right, they usually were called loyalists or tories. That is why we did not support the Revolution. When the war was going on some of the loyalists decided to leave, I was one of those families. After Yorktown the British were left in control of only one significant stronghold, which was New York

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