The National Museum of American History has approximately 3 million objects in its collections, and about 5â8% of the collection is on view at any one time.
A: In the Revolutionary War, the two opposing parties were the Whigs, who believed in separating from England, and the Tories, who believed that Americans should not break away from England. The Tories were also referred to as the Loyalists and the Whigs were also referred to as the Revolutionaries.
I see it as a different way of doing politics within a long-standing tradition of a party that was on the right side of history.â. For those of you with only scant memory of GCSE textbooks, the Whigs dominated British politics with the Tories for almost two centuries before the Liberal Party emerged in the 1850s.