Why did so many Americans join the Patriot movement in support of Independence?

Answer 1

The Patriots rebelled because they were angry about British taxes. The British were short of money after the French and Indian War, so they taxed colonists and English people to regain what they had lost. The colonists believed that this was unfair, and that only their representatives could tax them. They wanted to have a representative in Parliament, too. They protested violently and peacefully, but soon it got out of hand and it led to a war....thus, the Revolutionary War! (or the American Revolution).

Answer 2

People were patriots in the colonial times for different reasons. One was that they saw what people were doing to the loyalists and were afraid that that might happent to them. Another reason is that they belived that what the king was doing to them by taxing them was wrong and they wanted to be separate from the king and his taxes.

Answer 3

colonists wanted to be patriots in revoultionary war because the British treated them brutally and they pass laws that angered the colonists and left them economicly suffering. the british also belive the colonists existed to serve them and this angered the colonists. Also the colo9nists wanted to gain independence and be free from british rule

Answer 4

People who supported the American Revolution believed that the colonies had the right to self determination. They believed that the people of the colonies should be free of England.

Answer 5

in America?

because they wanted America to become independent from Britain

Answer 6

so that people have more freedom,no need to pay taxes as well.

Answer 7

According to the textbook I am teaching from - approximately 1/3 of the American people were undecided, 1/3 were Loyalist and 1/3 were Patriots.

Answer 8

They done it to protect their nation