Patriots

The Patriots Jessica B.

Patriots was the name of the British Thirteen United Colonies, who rebelled against the British control. In July 1776, they self-confessed the U.S.A. Such as Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Paine expressed by pamphleteers, Their rebellion was based on the political philosophy of republicanism. After 1768 they had called themselves Whigs, being apart of the members of the British Whig Party. Patriots represented in proper place of social,economic, ethnic and racial backgrounds. They included college students like Alexander Hamilton, planters like Thomas Jefferson, merchants like Alexander McDougall, and plain farmers like Daniel Shays and Joseph Plumb Martin. The Patriots came from many different backgrounds. However, without the support of the ordinary men and women, such as farmers, the struggle for independence would have failed. In 2000 historian Robert Calhoon estimated that in the Thirteen Colonies between 40 and 45 percent of the white population supported the Patriots' because Historians' best estimates put the proportion of adult white male loyalists somewhere between 15 and 20 percent. Approximately half the colonists of European ancestry tried to avoid involvement in the struggle — some of them deliberate pacifists, others recent emigrants, and many more simple apolitical folk. The patriots received active support from perhaps 40 to 45 percent of the white populace, and at most no more than a bare majority. The most prominent leaders of the Patriots are referred to today by Americans as the Founding Fathers of the United States.