USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On This Day in History, January 10th, 1776, Thomas Paine’s influential pamphlet Common Sense was published.

Detailed explanation-2: -On January 9, 1776, writer Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet “Common Sense, ” setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence.

Detailed explanation-3: -Published in 1776, Common Sense challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.

Detailed explanation-4: -It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution and became an immediate sensation. At his print shop here, Robert Bell published the first edition of Thomas Paine’s revolutionary pamphlet in January 1776.

Detailed explanation-5: -Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine and first published in Philadelphia in January 1776, was in part a scathing polemic against the injustice of rule by a king.