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Common Sense Dbq

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1. "With the events of 1775 fresh in their minds, many colonists reached the conclusion in 1776 that the time had come to secede from the Empire and declare independence"(U.S History, 153). The groundswell of help for their reason for independence in 1776 additionally owed much to the presence of an unknown flyer, first distributed in January 1776, entitled Common Sense. "Arguably the most radical pamphlet of the revolutionary era, Common Sense made a powerful argument for independence"(U.S History, 153). Paine's pamphlet dismissed the government, calling King George III an and scrutinizing the privilege of England to administer over America. Paine appeals to the protestant sentiments of colonial Americans to demonize Great Britain and GeorgeIII.

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