THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
AMERICAN REVOLUTION SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT
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Poor Richards Almanac
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The Constitution
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Common Sense
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Twilight
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Detailed explanation-1: -By promoting the idea of American exceptionalism and the need to form a new nation to realize its promise, Paine’s pamphlet not only attracted public support for the Revolution, but put the rebellion’s leaders under pressure to declare independence.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense as a response to Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence. James Chalmers, the Loyalist and member of Maryland’s planter elite, equated independence with slavery. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense was written specifically for the educated elite.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine have a lot of similarities, with one of them being their beliefs on religion. They both had very strong beliefs that organized religion was a tool that was being used to manipulate people. Thomas Jefferson went as far as writing his own version of the bible.