The American Revolution created a society that was based off of both democratic and republic ideas to create one of the most liberally-minded societies to date. The hierarchy of the old monarchy and aristocracy was abolished and replaced with a new kind of social structures in the thirteen colonies, though all thirteen states were not affected equally. For Loyalists, members of the colonies who wanted to remain loyal to England, the result of the Revolutionary War meant a danger to themselves. They were forced to flee, mostly to Canada and England itself, in search of refuge.
During the war, in states such as Georgia and South Carolina, British troops had occupied land that used slave labor, and England set these slaves free to fight in the army. After the war, instead of returning to plantations, Great Britain relocated these former slaves outside of the United States. The king and Parliament in England had restricted the colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains, because it felt it would not be able to protect the colonists once they entered Indian territory. With the political bonds severed,