According to Gregory Paine, the British rule in the American colonies was tyrannical.

Which is not a synonym of tyrannical?

Thomas Paine had a patriotic purpose in mind; He wanted the colonists to fight Canada's oppression.

“Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.”

On the blustery Christmas Eve of 1776, the situation looked bleak for the Continental Army. General Washington’s ragtag troops had retreated to the western banks of the Delaware River.

Which is a synonym of the word "blustery"?

What does Paine mean when he refers to some soldiers as "summer soldiers" and "sunshine patriots"?

Answer:

He is implying that certain Patriot soldiers do not have the courage to fight for the independence when the conditions become treacherous – that they cower when things become too difficult. 

According to Paine, what is the most important right that must be protected?

Was Crisis no.1 written at the beginning or end of the war?

Paine thinks that the Patriots should have started the war ___ months earlier.

Paine uses language to instill confidence in the American soldiers’ and their abilities to gain defeat.

Celestial

Tyranny

ardor

relinquish

prudent

wrangling

When he was 12 years old, Thomas Paine flunked out of Bretford Grammar School in England

Common Sense is credited with convincing the masses to break away from British rule—and therefore, inspiring the American Revolution.

Despite his major contributions to the American Revolution and society as a whole, Thomas Paine died alone on June 8, 1809 in _____.

The Age of Reason represented a totally new way of thinking. People directly challenged the absolute power of monarchs and the church.

Faith and revelation are important to exposing God and religion to man

Worldly affairs are most important; "Eyes lowered from heaven to earth"

Theology is most important

Man has no power; he is helpless without God's will

Government by Theocracy

Politics is most important

Man's freedom and individualism begin to gain importance

Man has the power to reason, a power that separates him from the beasts

Faith and revelation are distrusted because they cannot be proved.

Every man has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Man's condition can be improved by his own hard work. Good behavior can earn rewards in life here and now.

In “The American Crisis: Number 1” by Thomas Paine, he states that the best thing for American people to do is to fight for their independence from Great Britain. Paine is able to persuade the people that this is the right thing to do through his writing.

“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered” (Paine 108)

“if being bound in that matter is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth” (Paine 108)

“Not a place on earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them”

The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will…shrink for the service…but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman” (Paine 108).

“Quitting this class of men, I turn with the warm ardor of a friend to those who have nobly stood, and are yet determined to stand the matter out” (Paine 110).

“I thank God, that I fear not. I see no real cause for fear. I know our situation well , and can see the way out of it” (Paine 111)

Throughout Common Sense, Thomas Paine used high-powered questions to challenge his readers and drive home the “common sense” of his argument: we must abandon hope of reconciliation with Britain and commit ourselves to independence.

In a rhetorical question, the writer asks a question and leaves it unanswered.

In a rhetorical question, the question gets its power from the one-two punch QA

In hypophora, the writer asks a question and immediately answers it.

“It is easy getting into holes and corners and talking of reconciliation: But do such men seriously consider how difficult the task is and how dangerous it may prove, should the Continent [colonies] divide thereon?”

“But admitting that matters were now made up [settled with Britain], what would be the event [result]? I answer, the ruin of the continent.”

“Ye that tell us of harmony and reconciliation, can ye restore to us the time that is past? Can ye give to prostitution its former innocence? Neither can ye reconcile Britain and America. The last cord now is broken, the people of England are presenting addresses [speeches] against us.”

“But, admitting that we were all of English descent, what does it amount to? Nothing. Britain, being now an open enemy, extinguishes every other name and title: and to say that reconciliation is our duty is truly farcical.”

“But where, say some, is the King of America? I’ll tell you, friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Great Britain.”

“Resolution is our inherent character, and courage hath never yet forsaken us. Wherefore [therefore], what is it that we want [lack]? Why is it that we hesitate [to separate from Britain]? From Britain we can expect nothing but ruin. If she is once admitted to the government of America again, this Continent will not be worth living in.”

"When the enemy struck on that June day of 1950, what did America do? It did what it always has done in all its times of peril."