THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THOMAS PAINES COMMON SENSE
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He wants the people to join him in fighting the war.
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He wants to become the leader of the colonies.
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He never wants to go back there.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -He wrote it to try to inspire the American people and soldiers to not give up the fight. What do you think Paine is trying to say in the first line of The Crisis: “THESE are the times that try men’s souls.
Detailed explanation-2: -Paine’s essay addresses the crisis of loyalty threatening the ranks of American soldiers during the dark days of the Revolutionary War.
Detailed explanation-3: -Paine believes that God will favor the Americans over the British because they tried every option to avoid war. The only reason that war ended up happening was because there was no other way to be free from Britain. He also says that God can’t be on the British’s side because both Howe and King George III are murders.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.