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. Historians in the early 20th century such as J Franklin Jameson examined the class composition of the Patriot cause looking for evidence of a class war inside the revolution. More recent historians have largely abandoned that interpretation emphasizing instead the high level of ideological unity. Both Loyalists and Patriots were a "mixed lot", but ideological demands always came first the Patriots viewed independence as a means to gain freedom from British oppression and taxation and to reassert their basic rights Most yeomen farmers craftsmen and small merchants joined the Patriot cause to demand more political equality They were especially successful in Pennsylvania but less so in New England where John Adams attacked Thomas Paine's Common Sense for the "absurd democratical notions" that it proposed. The U.S Senate unanimously passed a similar resolution on June 18 2009 apologizing for the "fundamental injustice cruelty brutality and inhumanity of slavery" it also explicitly states that it cannot be used for restitution claims.

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