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14 Cards in this Set
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense
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led many colonists to support independence
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Independence
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freedom
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Colonists
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had to choose sides when independence was declared
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Declared
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said, stated
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Declaration of Independence DID NOT address
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the rights of all colonists
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What people did the Declaration of Independence did not address
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women, slaves, Native Americans
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Common Sense
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47 page pamphlet that argued AGAINST British rule over America
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Pamphlet
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small book
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Thomas Paine
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AUTHOR (writer) of COMMON SENSE, who wrote that citizens, not monarchs (kings, queens) should make laws
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Monarch
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kings and queens
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Thomas Jefferson
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main AUTHOR of the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
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Declaration of Independence
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document that formally (officially) announced the colonists break from Great Britain
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Loyalists
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colonists, sometimes called Tories, who remained loyal to Britain
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Loyal
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faithful, true, stick by
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