1. The southern colonies, such as Georgia and South Carolina, were mostly populated with loyalist.
>>>A. With large numbers of loyalists it gave British ground to take southern colonies.
>>>>>>i. “Georgia and the Carolinas appeared to hold large numbers of loyalists, providing a base for the British to recapture the southern colonies one by one…”(text book pg. 241)
>>>>>>>>>a. The British were trying to take the colonies so that the patriots couldn’t take it.
>>>B. The British turned to military use, to keep Georgia a loyalist state, they turned to Guerilla warfare.
>>>>>>i. “The British in Georgia quickly organized twenty loyal militia units, and 1,400 Georgians swore an oath of allegiance to the king.”(text book pg. 241)
>>>>>>>>>a. The Georgians promised to this oath which made the Guerilla warfare strategy effective.
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- I am not seeing an argument here.
- (Parenthetic) citations only from the text book...? This doesn't really show much research...or much of what you have thought about it.
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