EMERGENCE OF USA
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT
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founding a navy to fight in the Revolutionary War
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writing “Common Sense” to persuade others to join the Patriots
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speaking out against the Stamp Act in his “Give Me Liberty” speech
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recruiting Patriot fighters in New England known as the Green Mountain Boys
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and helped inspire the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain, theretofore an unpopular cause.
Detailed explanation-4: -Published in January 1776 in Philadelphia, nearly 120, 000 copies were in circulation by April. Paine’s brilliant arguments were straightforward. He argued for two main points: (1) independence from England and (2) the creation of a democratic republic.