History of the United States I / Unit 6 USH1 0776 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Numbers
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The idea
British America held two and a half million people. Loyalists were twenty to thirty percent, and the anchor gives roughly a third loyal, a third for independence, a third apathetic.
In practice
Nineteen thousand colonists serving the British, and one hundred thousand emigrating after the war.
Where people slip
Historians disagree on the proportions, and the anchor says so rather than picking one.
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