THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THOMAS PAINES COMMON SENSE
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People didn’t have common sense during the Colonial Period
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He wanted to appeal to the common man.
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He didn’t like common people
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He felt it was common sense to fight for independence from the tyranny of King George III.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: Thomas Paine wrote ‘Common Sense’ to rally colonists around the idea of independence and the establishment of a post-war republic.
Detailed explanation-2: -He argued for two main points: (1) independence from England and (2) the creation of a democratic republic.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1776 Paine wrote Common Sense, an extremely popular and successful pamphlet arguing for Independence from England. The essays collected here constitute Paine’s ongoing support for an independent and self-governing America through the many severe crises of the Revolutionary War.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.