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Who was the author of Common Sense?
Who is Thomas Paine.
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When was Common Sense published?
What is 1776.
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How many pages was Common Sense?
What is 48.
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How did colonists like Thomas Paine feel about seeking independence?
What is horrified.
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What was Common Sense's main role/goal?
What is to influence the army and the questioning colonists to believe in victory.
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Where was Paine born?
What is England.
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How many copies of Common Sense were sold within months?
What is 120,000.
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Paine moved to Philadelphia in ______?
When is 1774.
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"Even if England was the "mother country" no mother would _______?"
What is act so cruel to her children.
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When was Paine born?
When is 1737.
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What was the main idea of Common Sense?
What is that Americans didn't owe any loyalty to King George.
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Who was Common Sense's publisher?
Who is Robert Bell.
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Paine became the editor for ______ in 1775.
What is the Pennsylvania Magazine.
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What did Common Sense accomplish in colonists?
What is it persuaded many colonists to support the idea of independence.
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When did Paine die?
When is 1809.
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In Common Sense, Paine wrote that ______ suffered under British control.
What is American Trade.
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Paine published both part 1 and 2 of The Age of Reason in ______?
When is 1793, 1795.
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Paine was enlisted in the Continental Army in _____?
When is 1776.
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Which events in the 1760's to the 1770's made Paine ideas more powerful?
What is The proclamation of 1763 and The Battle of Lexington.
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Where did Paine die?
Where is New York City.
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What type of literary work is Common Sense?
What is a Political Pamphlet.
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What did Paine do with his profit off of Common Sense?
What is he donated it all to the revolutionary cause.
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Paine published part 2 of The Rights of Man in _____?
When is 1792.
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What did Paine find absurd?
What is that an island could rule a country.