Loyalist are people that stood up for the King of England and agreed with his decisions.
That mostly depends on the country that held them, however, the common forms of protest were either calm protests that weren't violent, or they were full blown civil wars of independence with numerous battles, or they were based on guerilla warfare where they would lead a war of attrition with the western powers until they decided to just leave.
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There were many deaths caused from the gold rush because of greedy Europeans. People would kill one another to get their gold. I would recommend watching call of the wild. It's about the gold rush and it's good. And you'd get to call it homework
