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The Enduring Vision,
Fifth Edition
Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Clifford E. Clark, Jr., Carleton College
et al.
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Unit 2: Creating Demand for Revolution:
Thomas Paine and Common Sense
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again." Thomas Paine, Common
Sense
Learning Objectives:
- To evaluate the ways that Thomas Paine made the ideology of the American
Revolution accessible to everyday people in his widely read pamphlet Common
Sense.
- To reflect on the ways that Paine's Common Sense might have
influenced the decisions of those attending the Second Continental Congress
and the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
- To consider the ways that Thomas Paine shaped an emerging definition of
freedom in Revolutionary America.
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