American History: Loyalists and the Revolutionary War

Flashcards covering the roles, perspectives, and eventual fates of various loyalists during the American Revolution, including biographical details of Catherine Van Cortlandt and Hugh Gaine.

Who wrote to her husband, a new jersey merchant fighting in a loyalist brigade, in late $1776$ about patriot troops quartered in her house?

catherine van cortlandt

How did loyalists who thought of themselves as the "better sort of people" view their adversaries?

lawless mobs, brutes

Why did conservative, wealthy, and well-educated loyalists believe a break with Britain would be negative?

britain would invite anarchy

Which loyalist pamphleteer warned in $1775$ that "nothing short of a miracle could gain you one battle"?

daniel leonard

In which war had thousands of british veterans served before settling in the colonies after $1763$?

seven years war

In which state did british veterans take up farming on $200\,\text{acre}$ land grants?

new york

Recent immigrants from which regions of the british isles settled in georgia or the backcountry of north and south carolina?

british isles

Which Tory brigades, organized by the british army, were filled by newcomers who resented the plantation elite?

volunteers of ireland, north carolina highlanders

Why did thousands of african-americans join loyalist ranks during the war?

hope that service to the british might offer an escape from bondage

To whose army did catherine van cortlandt abandon her new jersey home to be used as a hospital?

washington

To which two locations besides New York did catherine flee with her $9$ children?

nova scotia, madeira islands

How many children was catherine van cortlandt said to have eventually given birth to?

$$24$$

Who was the black Loyalist in monmouth, new jersey, known for his band of raiders who captured patriots and supplies?

Colonel Tye

To which location did a large group of fugitive slaves win british passage from the port of New York?

nova scotia

Which british general abandoned over $4,000$ former slaves in virginia?

lord cornwallis

How many loyalists fled abroad, mostly to england and the maritime provinces of canada, to escape retribution?

$$80,000$$

Which individual lamented being in a station "much inferior to that of a menial servant" after the war?

thomas danforth

Name the printer in nyc who reopened his business and won contracts from the new government.

hugh gaine

Who authored the new national army regulations that were published by a loyalist soldier?

baron von steuben

With which political group did hugh gaine align to call for a strong central government and powerful executive?

federalist

Which state ratified the constitution in $1788$, where hugh gaine rode the float at the head of the celebration parade?

new york