Thomas Paine's Influence On American History

Thomas Paine “Common Sense” contributes to American history do to the fact that in his essay he’s talking about the radical American Revolution. Thomas Paine was born in 1737. Thomas was raised in an English market town his parents owned a small grocery store. His parents were able to send him off to school before his father introduced him to corset making. A few interesting things I learned about Paine was that he used to be a preacher, a seaman, a teacher, and a tax collector. November 30 1774, Thomas Paine arrived in Philadelphia on a ship from London. He had failed at so many things throughout his life including marriages two to be exact. He drank so heavily that he would beat on us wives. Despite his flaws he was still an impassioned writer. Just from a pamphlet he wrote caught Benjamin Franklin eye helping his secure a job with the “Pennsylvania Magazine”. While trying to prove to the British workers and other people he started teaching working-class children how to read and write. In January 1776, his pamphlet “Common Sense” was …show more content…
It was a strongly worded essay that opened up a lot of people minds, and to influence the people mindsets of breaking away from the Great Britain. Thomas Paine really wanted to be an eye opener for a lot of people he wanted to state the obvious as to things that went on he wanted to break down things that people probably wasn’t even catching, like how could a king rule another nation as he’s so far away, or how could an island rule a whole continent. Common sense was a very concerted argument against British and their rules. Why the American colonist should be ruled by King George control something from an island across sea. It’s just an important document that should be read and reviewed and read by a lot of