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Patriot (American Revolution) Patriots (also known as Revolutionaries, Continentals, Rebels, or American Whigs) were those colonists of the Thirteen Colonies who rebelled against British control during the American Revolution and in July 1776 declared the United States of America an independent nation.
As the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770 A street fight that occurred, between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. 5 colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.