three reasons why the patriots support independence and three reasons why the loyalists oppose independence?

Answer 1

~As to the 'patriots', Patrick Henry said it best with "Give me liberty or give me debts". They also wanted to steal free land from the natives, including their recent allies, but the treaties to which they were bound (see the Seven Years War (aka French and Indian War)) precluded them from doing so as long as they called themselves British. They also wanted to trade with Spain and France, including arms and war goods which the recipients could and would use against the European British. Hey, there was a buck to be made - why not aid and abet the enemy if it lines one's pockets (that concept worked well for Prescott Bush, father of George H. W. and grandfather of George H., who was chief American banker for the Nazis even as George H.W. was doing his flight training to fight them and as the troops were landing in Africa - at least he didn't take (directly) gold from the teeth at the ovens, but the fortune that elected two presidents was made on profits with the Nazis).

The loyalists, on the other hand - who for much of the war outnumbered the "patriots", realized that the homeland Brits had pretty much let them skate on taxes for generations, had overlooked the rampant smuggling that had made the wealth of the rich, had provided them with military protection against the French and the natives at no, or nominal, cost to themselves, had provided them with guaranteed markets and sources of manufactured goods, technology, raw materials and slaves and indentured servants, and otherwise helped them build their dream lives. That they frowned on the escapades of treasonous terrorists like John Hancock and Sam Adams is little wonder. They understood that their government, the Crown and Parliament, was the most just and fair on the globe at the time and the upstart rabble-rousers had no clue as to how to create and maintain an entirely new government and nation, let alone take on the most formidable military power on earth to have a chance to try. They didn't take into account the duplicity of the 'patriots', who formed an alliance with the French, the very power with whom they had been at war a few short years earlier and which war had lead to the economic devastation of the Empire which, in turn, had caused the homeland Brits to repeal existing taxes, implement new and lower ones, establish reasonable trade rules and tariffs designed to salvage the world-wide empire of which the 13 colonies were only a small and not terribly significant part (the various Townshend Acts) and actually, for a change, try to collect the taxes and enforce the trade rules.

So, why do you call treasonous rebels 'patriots'? Ah the distortions of history when written by the victors.

Answer 2

a million. The British presented a more advantageous sturdy and good authorities. 2. safe practices changed into ensured with the British as their rulers. 3. The British presented a good economic equipment that the colonists would have lacked in the different case.