USA HISTORY

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783

THOMAS PAINES COMMON SENSE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the “crisis” that Paine talks about in the beginning of his pamphlet?
A
Pearl Harbor
B
American Revolution
C
Civil Rights Movement
D
The Holocaust
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The terrible condition of Washington’s troops during the winter of 1776 prompted Paine to publish a series of inspirational pamphlets known as “The American Crisis, ” which opens with the famous line “These are the times that try men’s souls.”

Detailed explanation-2: -Overview. Thomas Paine’s The American Crisis is a series of pamphlets published between 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolutionary War. Paine uses eloquent, emotional language to persuade the American people to support their states’ new union and contribute to the revolutionary cause.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph, ” said Paine in The American Crisis, a new pamphlet that appeared in the Pennsylvania Journal.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Stamp Act of 1765, the first direct tax ever imposed by the British government on colonial Americans, inadvertently provoked a ten-year clash of wills between Britain and the colonies that led to the American Revolutionary War.

Detailed explanation-5: -Political writer, Thomas Paine, in his persuasive writing, The Crisis No. 1, expresses feelings towards Britain’s control over the colonies. Paine’s purpose is to unite the colonists in an effort to retaliate against Great Britain. He uses an objective tone in order to unite and rally the common person in his nation.

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