Question

How did Thomas Paine's Common Sense influence colonists to declare independence? It claimed that Britain could survive without the support of the colonists. It argued that the colonists could defeat France and Spain in war without help from Britain. It suggested that Britain would eventually stop investing in the colonies, so the colonies needed to rely on themselves. It noted that Britain could not be the parent country when colonists came from all parts of Europe.

Answer 1

Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine and first published in Philadelphia in January 1776, was in part a scathing polemic against the injustice of rule by a king. 'Common Sense,' published in 1776, inspired American colonists to declare independence from England.