THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THOMAS PAINES COMMON SENSE
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There was a liberty tree mentioned in Common Sense.
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The people needed to protect their liberty like the Liberty Tree.
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Thomas Paine planted the Liberty Tree.
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There is no connection.
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Common Sense” is credited as playing a crucial role in convincing colonists to take up arms against England. In it, Paine argues that representational government is superior to a monarchy or other forms of government based on aristocracy and heredity.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -What is a Liberty Tree? Leading up to the American Revolution, a stately elm tree on the Boston Common served as a place to demonstrate dissatisfaction with British rule. On August 14, 1765, a band of discontented merchants and artisans hung an effigy in the tree to protest the Stamp Act.