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The Enduring Vision, Fifth Edition
Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Clifford E. Clark, Jr., Carleton College
et al.
American Ethnic Identities: Online Activities
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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