46 Pages Book Report
Cathy Quineche
HIST 1301
Amy Denton
46 Pages Book Report
About The London Packet Thomas Paine arrived to America in November of 1774. During this time America was experiencing great conflicts with England, these conflicts would later result In the American Revolutionary War. Benjamin Franklin advised Paine to move to America, and after he had lost wife, kids, and job that he did. Paine took a job editing The Pennsylvania Magazine, and also began writing anonymous articles. He wrote articles such as “African Slavery in America”, he mostly wrote articles about general views and thoughts he had on revolution and injustice. In 1774 America was under England’s oppression, increasing tension between England and America colonies would soon result. Common Sense by Thomas Paine was written in an attempt to project the attention of America colonist towards the growing issue. Thomas Paine would be perceived as incorrect for speaking out against the King, but would be later looked at as a hero for America. Thomas Paine pursued Common Sense with passion, audacity, and The American Crisis was a series of pamphlets written by Thomas Paine during the revolutionary war in 1776. George Washington ordered that the pamphlet be read aloud to his mean, in attempt to arouse the interest. It was a dark time during the war, there was a sense of unrelenting failure on the battlefields. American Crisis was written to re-inspire and reassure Paine’s compatriots. His words were both the soldiers fighting and the American people, it was meant as a challenge and a tribute. “These are the times that try a men’s soul….Tranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consultation with us, that the harder conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.” (46 Pages 143) America shouted lines from the American Crisis when Washington and his troops attacked a town called Trenton,
HIST 1301
Amy Denton
46 Pages Book Report
About The London Packet Thomas Paine arrived to America in November of 1774. During this time America was experiencing great conflicts with England, these conflicts would later result In the American Revolutionary War. Benjamin Franklin advised Paine to move to America, and after he had lost wife, kids, and job that he did. Paine took a job editing The Pennsylvania Magazine, and also began writing anonymous articles. He wrote articles such as “African Slavery in America”, he mostly wrote articles about general views and thoughts he had on revolution and injustice. In 1774 America was under England’s oppression, increasing tension between England and America colonies would soon result. Common Sense by Thomas Paine was written in an attempt to project the attention of America colonist towards the growing issue. Thomas Paine would be perceived as incorrect for speaking out against the King, but would be later looked at as a hero for America. Thomas Paine pursued Common Sense with passion, audacity, and The American Crisis was a series of pamphlets written by Thomas Paine during the revolutionary war in 1776. George Washington ordered that the pamphlet be read aloud to his mean, in attempt to arouse the interest. It was a dark time during the war, there was a sense of unrelenting failure on the battlefields. American Crisis was written to re-inspire and reassure Paine’s compatriots. His words were both the soldiers fighting and the American people, it was meant as a challenge and a tribute. “These are the times that try a men’s soul….Tranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consultation with us, that the harder conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.” (46 Pages 143) America shouted lines from the American Crisis when Washington and his troops attacked a town called Trenton,