THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
LEXINGTON CONCORD AND BUNKER HILL THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BEGINS
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founding a navy to fight in the Revolutionary War.
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recruiting Patriot fighters in New England known as the Green Mountain Boys.
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speaking out against the Stamp Act in his “Give Me Liberty” speech.
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writing “Common Sense” to persuade others to join the Patriots.
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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: -He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and helped inspire the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain, theretofore an unpopular cause.
Detailed explanation-3: -He argued for two main points: (1) independence from England and (2) the creation of a democratic republic. Paine avoided flowery prose. He wrote in the language of the people, often quoting the Bible in his arguments. Most people in America had a working knowledge of the Bible, so his arguments rang true.
Detailed explanation-4: -Credited with uniting average citizens and political leaders behind the idea of independence, “Common Sense” played a remarkable role in transforming a colonial squabble into the American Revolution. At the time Paine wrote “Common Sense, ” most colonists considered themselves to be aggrieved Britons.