The pamphlet, Common Sense, by Thomas Paine, was the seed
that encouraged and motivated the colonists’ independence from
England. Although many colonists were angry about the taxation,
boarding of British soldiers in their own homes, and little/no
representation on their views in Parliament, many or some of the
colonists were willing to put up with King George because that's all
they knew and had become accustomed to. Thomas Paine raises this
observation in his very first sentence, “PERHAPS the sentiments
contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to
procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing
WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises
at first a …show more content…
“ Many Americans had liked being English, but being English
hadn’t worked” (118) Paine inspired the colonists to have their own
identity and to separate from England. With this document Paine
moved the colonists along, prodding them to think in a different way
than they had previously.
The document that informed England that we were are a
separate nation and government was the Declaration of Independence.
It was a document that allowed the colonies to present a unified front
to England and finalized our separation from the British. The first part
of the Declaration points out the abuses that the colonists had
experienced at the hands of King George and the reasons why it
needed to end. “That whenever any Form of Government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on
such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
(Declaration of Independence.) Imagining how this document came
that encouraged and motivated the colonists’ independence from
England. Although many colonists were angry about the taxation,
boarding of British soldiers in their own homes, and little/no
representation on their views in Parliament, many or some of the
colonists were willing to put up with King George because that's all
they knew and had become accustomed to. Thomas Paine raises this
observation in his very first sentence, “PERHAPS the sentiments
contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to
procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing
WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises
at first a …show more content…
“ Many Americans had liked being English, but being English
hadn’t worked” (118) Paine inspired the colonists to have their own
identity and to separate from England. With this document Paine
moved the colonists along, prodding them to think in a different way
than they had previously.
The document that informed England that we were are a
separate nation and government was the Declaration of Independence.
It was a document that allowed the colonies to present a unified front
to England and finalized our separation from the British. The first part
of the Declaration points out the abuses that the colonists had
experienced at the hands of King George and the reasons why it
needed to end. “That whenever any Form of Government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on
such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
(Declaration of Independence.) Imagining how this document came