Answer:
Britain provided the colonies with necessary economic support.
Explanation:
The Loyalists were the American settlers who remained loyal to the Kingdom of Great Britain and the British monarchy during the United States War of Independence. They were opposed by the Patriots, who were American rebels against the domination by the British monarchy. The Patriots referred to them as Tories, loyalists or men of the king. After the difficulties that happened at the hands of the Patriots, they fled to Great Britain, to certain territories of British North America (like Canada, where they were known as Loyalists of the United Empire) or to the British West Indies. Both groups agreed about the fact that Britain provided the colonies with necessary economic support, but according to the Patriots that was not the problem. The central problem was the great number of taxes that the Americans were paying to the British crown without having representation in the Parliament to defend their interests. It was synthesized in the phrase "no taxation without representation."
