12.
What is Thomas Paine trying to convince the colonists to do in this excerpt from his Common
Sense pamphlet?
Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us? Whoever says No
to this question, is an INDEPENDENT, for independency means no more, than, whether we
shall make our own laws, or whether the king, the greatest enemy this continent hath, or can
have, shall tell us "THERE SHALL BE NO LAWS BUT SUCH AS I LIKE."
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
Source: Public Domain/Project Gutenberg
A. veto the Stamp Act
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B.
C.
D.
declare independence
sign the King's petition
reinstate the Intolerable Acts
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