Thomas Paine's Common Sense, the Enlightenment, & Road to Revolution

Turning Points in U.S. History: 1776. In this video we explore the impact of Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” pamphlet. We also explore 1) What ideas impacted Paine’s political thought? 2) Why the colonist were so reluctant to declare independence 3) What conflicts were already occurring in the colonies that made them receptive to the message of “Common Sense”, and 4) How Paine used simple and direct language to diss British rule and encourage independence.

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My teacher has required us to watch this for APUSH. Congrats. The public school system has deemed you worthy of our official education.

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Homeschoolers using this too

[@Kate_08]

I’ve been watching your videos for several weeks now preparing for the Foreign Service Officer test, and “the original T-Paine” made me laugh super hard. Thanks again for your work.

[@ericlane659]

Excellent video and teaching!

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Freaking awesome! Best history videos on the internet.

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[@moshionamaniamani3025]

Thanks for the insight...ready for finales!

[@JoczProductions]

Dope! Good luck.

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I saw this In my history class

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Great video! Very helpful.

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[@ptah.3385]

Learned a lot. Thx.

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[@morischacter1076]

Hey great video! Quick question could you compare Paine’s radicalism about breaking away at that time from England to Garrison and the institution of slavery. This would be for complexity. Thanks!!

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lmfao t pain preaching freedom to the ladies

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[@RobSinclaire]

"The British/the English" took the lead in clearing the Seas of Pirates (the Terrorists of the day back then) This activity required Money so, the taxation was justified from that point of view.

[@josephcallahan1664]

The music is to terrible that I stopped the video. It's okay NOT to have music in the video.

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Ugh I came here for the Eoc

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[@dragoncrash1234]

Good video but please consider not having random music clips in there. I get that you’re trying to keep us interested but the music itself makes us lose focus and stuff like that. Maybe just focus more on puns instead