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PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS. VS. LOYALISTS. PATRIOTS. lived in the colonies mostly in New England Massachusetts. opposed taxation without representation

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PATRIOTS

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  1. PATRIOTS VS LOYALISTS

  2. PATRIOTS

  3. lived in the colonies mostly in New England Massachusetts

  4. opposed taxation without representation believed that the English government, Parliament and George III, did not have the right to tax them-only the colonial assemblies could

  5. break away from England believed in the Declaration of Independence that the people had a right to abolish a government that was fundamentally unjust

  6. LOYALISTS

  7. lived in the Southern colonies mainly in Georgia and South Carolina

  8. remain with England England did have the right to tax its subjects and the colonists were subjects of England

  9. reason to remain Loyalists believed that unfair taxes were not reason enough to break away from England and fight a war

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