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вЂ“ Sections 7-8 focus on the critical year of 1776 when many Americans made a final irrevocable transition.

вЂ“ Section 6 examines the debate over slavery at a time when white men, including slaveholders, were demanding their 'natural rights' and declaring that 'all men are created equal.'.Their beliefs as conscientious objectors to war. вЂ“ Section 5 views the struggles of religious pacifist groups, primarily in Pennsylvania, as they sought tolerance for.For most Loyalists, writes historian Catherine Crary, 'Loyalism was an evolutionary and painful process, even as the transfer of allegiance to a new government was not easy for many rebels.' 1 вЂ“ Sections 1-4 consider the civil war between Patriots and Loyalists, focusing on the Loyalist experience at the outbreak of war.absolved of all allegiance to the British Crown.'

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In this theme, REBELLION, we explore several aspects of these 'civil wars' as resistance evolved into full rebellion by the self-declared 'free and independent States. Often lost in a study of the Revolution are the 'horrors of civil war' among Americans themselves-among supporters of independence (Patriots/Whigs), opponents (Loyalists/Tories), and the ambivalent Americans who were angry with Britain but opposed to declaring independence. After all, it was a conflict within the British empire, between the mother country and its colonies over internal issues of rights and power. In the 1770s the term civil war, not revolution, was used to describe the spectre of outright war with Britain. You have now pointed out to you, Gentlemen, two Roads-one evidently leading to Peace, Happiness and Restoration of the public Tranquility-the other inevitably conducting you to Anarchy, Misery, and all the Horrors of a Civil War.