Loyalists believed the British government protected their rights, but patriots disagreed. The patriots believed that obeying the british would undermine the potential that they could achieve. Meanwhile, most people who became a loyalists are the one that personally profited from british's rule.
D. Ratification of the Constitution
These were the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists.
With the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in 1814 and the end of the War of 1812, many Americans viewed the Federalists as traitors. The Federalist Party collapsed, leaving the Democratic-Republican Party as the only political party in the United States until the mid-1820s.
