5/9/2023 0 Comments Thomas paine and common senseNothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. I have heard it asserted by some, that as America has flourished under her former connection with Great-Britain, the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense. Published anonymously on January 10, 1776, the work spread quickly through the colonies (120,000 were said to have been distributed within three months), and went on to become one of the most famous documents of the American Revolution. The alleged benefits of British rule, Paine asserts, are actually liabilities he cites unfair trade policies and American entanglement in Britain's foreign wars. In these excerpts from the famous pamphlet Common Sense, Thomas Paine makes the case for independence from Britain. Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945).Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913).Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877).Colonization and Settlement (1621-1750).Military History and the LGBTQ+ Community.Two Wings of the Same Bird: Cuban Immigration and Puerto Rican Migration to the United States.Why They Fought: Ordinary Soldiers in the Civil War.Expansion at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Early Twentieth Century Mexican Immigration to the U.S.Who Freed the Slaves? How a War for Union Became a War for Freedom.
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