The committees goal in the beginning was to get rid of all the "enemies" of the revolution; but this eventually led to killing innocent people. Some could say the committees goal later on was to scare people into not revolting against them; so many innocent people were getting beheaded that everyone feared for their life during this period.
The tax on whiskey by the federal government started the rebellion (the rebels were mostly farmers who used whiskey as a sort of currency), and George Washington personally led 13,000 troops to end the rebellion, but the rebels broke up in fear.
Answer: The loyalist "FREEEDOM OF EXPRESSION WAS CURBED DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION". option "b" is the most correct option.
Explanation: During the American revolution, they were some Americans, who played loyal to the grown of Britain, because they are directly serving as an official to in the palace and some believe nothing can be gotten from war, and if they were to be free from Britain, they will loss all the benefits been gotten from Britain. This made many of them to be loyal, as the word loyalist is formed to describe those set of people.
This agitate the American who are moving for freedom, to trace those loyalist and brutalize them to death. This curbed the freedom of expression of many loyalist. All Americans that did not want the revolution, were forced to remain silent because, they will be brutalized to death by the ones who are agitating for freedom. The American agitating for freedom were so desperate and passionate to fight for revolution.