History of the United States I / Unit 6 USH1 0777 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Loyalists and Confiscation
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The idea
States passed confiscation acts seizing Loyalist land and property, and revolutionary governments required oaths of allegiance.
In practice
Those refusing losing property, being imprisoned, or being forced to work for the revolutionary order.
Where people slip
William Franklin, Benjamin Franklin's son and royal governor of New Jersey, was imprisoned and never reconciled with his father.
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