Loyalists were people who believed that the British should rule the new found land and did not like the idea of independence. For that matter, loyalists were sometimes beaten up by gangs who would go and find the people who were loyal to the crown and harass them. But for the most part, loyalists usually kept quiet most of the time, and tried to say little to nothing about politics in order to keep their thoughts as private as possible in order to not let anyone find out what they really thought about who should rule. At the end, most of the loyalists fled the U.S. to Canada, and others left to different countries ruled by the British.
