America has been shaped by so many factors such as wars, people, government acts, and exchanges in power. Some built America up while, others tore it down. The French and Indian War helped show the Colonists that they could battle on their own. The Declaratory Act led Thomas Paine to realize they needed to fight for their independance. The French and Indian War, The Declaratory Act, and Thomas Paine have been positive influences on America. The French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years War, was the first colonial war. (Kindig) This war was honestly global, as it was fought on four continents and three oceans. (Tindall and Shi) The French and Indian war was an explosion of tension building since 1689 in France and England. (Kindig)
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He was born in England to parents who both had different religions. Initially, Paine didn’t have much education. He was young, only 13, when he started working with his father. Paine wasn’t a successful man in London with two failed marriages and various jobs not developing as he wanted. Then he met Benjamin Franklin, who sent him to America to create a better life. He took his advice, and moved to Philadelphia in November of 1774. Thomas Paine suggested the idea that the colonists should not be fighting over taxes, when they really should be fighting for independence. (Foner) Paine published this idea in his fifty-page pamphlet “Common Sense”. “Common Sense” became wildly popular selling more than 500,000 copies in the first few months. This pamphlet started the spark for the Declaration of Independance. (Foner) “Thomas Paine’s inspiring pamphlet was originally published anonymously because of its treasonous content.” (Tindall and Shi) But “Common Sense” wasn’t the only pamphlet that Paine ever published. Later that same year on December 19, 1776, Paine published his first edition of “The American Crisis” Because of the motivation words, General Washington ordered that this would be read to all his soldiers before the Battle of Valley Forge. He wrote 16 issues of of “The American Crisis” between 1776 and 1783, and they were all signed “Common Sense”. (Foner) These pamphlets encouraged Americans and their militias. These three instances in American history have led to positive outcomes. The Colonists learned to stand alone from the French and Indian War. Through the harshness of the Declaratory Act and Thomas Paine’s ideas, the colonists fought for independence. Each experience helped create an independant and self-sustaining nation, The United States of
He was born in England to parents who both had different religions. Initially, Paine didn’t have much education. He was young, only 13, when he started working with his father. Paine wasn’t a successful man in London with two failed marriages and various jobs not developing as he wanted. Then he met Benjamin Franklin, who sent him to America to create a better life. He took his advice, and moved to Philadelphia in November of 1774. Thomas Paine suggested the idea that the colonists should not be fighting over taxes, when they really should be fighting for independence. (Foner) Paine published this idea in his fifty-page pamphlet “Common Sense”. “Common Sense” became wildly popular selling more than 500,000 copies in the first few months. This pamphlet started the spark for the Declaration of Independance. (Foner) “Thomas Paine’s inspiring pamphlet was originally published anonymously because of its treasonous content.” (Tindall and Shi) But “Common Sense” wasn’t the only pamphlet that Paine ever published. Later that same year on December 19, 1776, Paine published his first edition of “The American Crisis” Because of the motivation words, General Washington ordered that this would be read to all his soldiers before the Battle of Valley Forge. He wrote 16 issues of of “The American Crisis” between 1776 and 1783, and they were all signed “Common Sense”. (Foner) These pamphlets encouraged Americans and their militias. These three instances in American history have led to positive outcomes. The Colonists learned to stand alone from the French and Indian War. Through the harshness of the Declaratory Act and Thomas Paine’s ideas, the colonists fought for independence. Each experience helped create an independant and self-sustaining nation, The United States of