In 1774, a man by the name of Thomas Paine had arrived in Philadelphia, needing a new start due to some misfortune he had in the past. The Americas gave him the chance to become a popular revolutionary through his book, Common Sense. It was in 1176 that he published this and copies were immediately bought and sold, making it a best-seller. It was then that people looked into this pamphlet and saw the situation America was in at the time, with people embracing it or rejecting it. Although it was written to help Paine’s success, his ideas came from true words and facts which formed the spark in many revolutionists. Some of the arguments that were made was that Great Britain protecting us this whole time, we have simply been used as a shield
