Loyalists were colonists who decided it was best to side with their forebears, the British Empire, during the American Revolution. The Revolution was very much a civil war, as it forced people to choose a side - and that divided families. ... That's only because the patriots won the war. ... But it's important to see the loyalist perspective. - that originally, all colonists were founded by the British, so were British citizens. ... Perhaps if we were alive during that period of history and were part of an American colony on the verge of war, we'd choose peace as well....

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In 1919 the war developed along two fronts. ... Some parts of Ireland regretted the passing of the RIC during 1920-21. ... Collins set up a very efficient intelligence network, which consisted of postmen, civil servants, policemen and even detectives. ... Some people were beaten or even killed. ... Important leaders such as Griffith were arrested and under General Winter many of Collins" agents were detected. ...

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Mackenzie made many important allies during the war, and quite possibly prevented Canada from breaking out into a civil war. (2) "It is what we prevent, rather than what we do that counts most in Government." (3) William Lyon Mackenzie King was born on December 17, 1874 in Berlin Ontario and from the time Mackenzie was young he was concerned about the world around him. ... King was inspired by two people in his life, his mother, Isabel Mackenzie, and his grandfather, William Lyon Mackenzie. ... The conscription crises of World War One had left a huge division between English and French Cana...

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Most people think that the ban of slavery was a human rights issue in the south, where in fact it was a major economic one. ... According to Carl Abbott, in the years following the American Revolution, slavery, which had never been so prevalent or economically important in the North as in the South, became the South's "peculiar institution." ... (Abbott) Nevertheless, despite widespread questioning of its morality and a surplus of private liberation's in the Upper South during the revolutionary era, bondage actually expanded in the southern states. ... Between the North and the Sou...

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