Answer: The inhabitants of the British colonies in North America were jubilant upon hearing the results of the Treaty of Paris.
The Union won the battle.
The debate is relevant today because there are more or less similar things happening nowadays. The conservatives nowadays are also starting to respond to the political and cultural liberalism that has been the norm for a while. Both now and then, the country was and is divided a lot, which results in power struggles by these two factions.
