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Person1737 – 1809
Thomas Paine
English-born pamphleteer whose Common Sense (1776) rallied Americans to independence; later defended the French Revolution in Rights of Man
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The English-born Thomas Paine published a short pamphlet calling for independence in plain words; selling tens of thousands of copies that year, it turned opinion toward independence.
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- The American Revolution1765 – 1789
From the Stamp Act to Washington’s inauguration — thirteen colonies that cried “No taxation without representation” fought Britain for eight years, won their independence and framed a new republic under the Constitution