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The American Revolution and Its Aftermath

The American revolutionaries could be subdivided into two allied “factions”:

Faction 1: anti-monarchist patriots who valued and were willing to risk their lives for liberty and freedom consisting primarily of yeoman farmers, small crafts, tradesmen and entrepreneurs; and,

Faction 2: anti-monarchist elites consisting of larger mercantilists, financial elites, other members of the colonial ruling class and Masons who wished to secure the vast new continent as their fiefdom.

The liberty and freedom-loving Americans came to be known as the “Anti-Federalists”. The elites came to be known as the “Federalists”.

The Gadsden Flag, Not a Federalist Banner

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