Question

Explain the significance of Thomas Paine's Common Sense in the success of the American Revolution

Answer 1

It was such a motivational book of patriotism, it encouraged those who before didn't believe in the revolution to being believing in it, and those who already did believe in it to believe in it even more. It was almost like a piece of libel, deriding the king and England while promoting this revolution as a duty the American people had to fulfill. It brought up insights that many didn't see before, and informed them.

Answer 2

Is that the treatise wherein he suggested people eat their children?

Answer 3

Paine's pamphlet helped rally the communities. It appealed to the colonists' common sense and helped fan the flames of the growing spirit of revolution. Without it the revolutionary leader would have had a harder time uniting the colonies.

Answer 4

He explained what was happening in America and how to deal with it in a way that all people could understand the importance of it. I believe it was Ben Franklin that said if it weren't for Common Sense, the Revolution may have never happened.

Answer 5

Add to the answers you already have that Common Sense was probably heard more often than read, it address the listener as part of a nation, thus implanting that idea, he also states that Europe, not England is the parent of America.. . He uses language persuasively, creates word pictures that resonate and - it's still a very good piece of writing by today's standards.

Answer 6

He told people how stuff was and they came to terms and acepted it and then they started building crap. hooray!!