EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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appealing to the colonists’ sense of inalienable rights and liberty
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blaming the British for starting the peculiar institution of slavery
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listing specific grievances against King George and the British government
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reminding Americans that colonies fighting for independence rarely ended in success
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Detailed explanation-1: -Writing in clear and persuasive prose, Paine collected various moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution and became an immediate sensation.
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: -For what reasons did the writer Thomas Paine urge colonists to support independence? Independence would allow Americans to trade more freely and would give the colonists a chance to start a new society with greater social equality and economic opportunity.
Detailed explanation-4: -In Common Sense, Paine argued that it was absurd for an island to rule a Continent, that America could avoid European conflicts by being free of Great Britain, that London was too far from America to rule it, and that the King and Parliament would inevitably rule for Britains benefit, not Americas.