Answer:
A) Loyalists outnumbered Patriots.
Explanation:
Especially many loyalists were observed in the South, in New York, in Pennsylvania, and in Georgia and South Carolina they made up the majority. Loyalists called for moderation in the struggle for the rights of the colonies, for which they were attacked by radical patriots. Georgia was one of the main centers of loyalists in the Revolutionary War. During the war, there were whole army formations formed from loyalists; nevertheless, their actions had little effect on the outcome of the entire Anglo-American conflict.
To gain the southerners' support, Douglas proposed creating two territories in the area–Kansas and Nebraska and repealing the Missouri Compromise line. The question of whether the territories would be slave or free would be left to the settlers under Douglas's principle of popular sovereignty
Answer:
yes
Explanation:
It created a leadership void that no other fundamentalist leader could fill.