History and government of the United States, for evening schools . — English, Irish, Scotch, Dutch,Swedes, Finns, Germans, French Huguenots, Negroes, andothers in small numbers. They w^ere often widely separatedfrom one another in isolated communities, and news traveledvery slowly among them. Loyalists or Tories.—Many of them were recent immigrants,full of Old World ideas, including superstitious reverence forkings. A few were closely dependent upon or related to theroyal officers in the various colonies. Some were merchantswith important business connections with the people of Eng-land. Of th
History and government of the United States, for evening schools . — English, Irish, Scotch, Dutch,Swedes, Finns, Germans, French Huguenots, Negroes, andothers in small numbers. They w^ere often widely separatedfrom one another in isolated communities, and news traveledvery slowly among them. Loyalists or Tories.—Many of them were recent immigrants,full of Old World ideas, including superstitious reverence forkings. A few were closely dependent upon or related to theroyal officers in the various colonies. Some were merchantswith important business connections with the people of Eng-land. Of the white population, fully one third were eitheropposed or indifferent to the idea of resisting the power ofking and Parliament. They were known as Loyalists or Tories,and many of them were ready to help the British army putdown the armed resistance of their fellow-countrymen, whowere generally known as Patriots. 32 HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY 36. Steps to Independence. — In 1774 a Congress of delegatesfrom most of the colonies was summoned to meet at Philadel-. phia, to pro-test against themeasures of GreatBritain. Next yearCongress met againand decided to fightagainst Great Britainand to appoint a com-mander in chief for thearmies to be the French andIndian AVar, a youngrirginian of character, abil-and wealth, named GeorgeWashington^ had learned the pro-fession of arms; and now he waschosen to lead the American colonists in the year 1775 were not seek-ing independence from England, bnt had deter-mined to secure the right of self-government, w^hich means theright of each citizen to vote for his choice of rulers and of hidependence. — After a year of fighting, amajority of the people came to see that, as a military necessity,a new nation must be formed here. In 1776 Congress published HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY 66 the Declaration of Independence (pp. 101-104), which statedthe reasons why the colonies could no longer endure the rule o
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