HISTORY 40A Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Olive Branch Petition, First Continental Congress, Thomas Paine
17 Nov 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Tom paine"s early life in england and london: campaign for the excise men. Tom paine arrives in philadelphia, 1774: coercive or intolerable acts, 1774, first continental congress, 1774, second continental congress, 1775, olive branch petition. Common sense -- tom paine: mass audience, attack on monarchy and hereditary rule, america the model of freedom. The story of the elites who saw conspiracy. Jefferson, adams, franklin: middle or upper class families. No one in the american revolution: more remarkable career, suffered more peculiar fate. Friends with t. jefferson and b. franklin, is an ideological enemy of john adams. Paine: from england, lower order of society, arrived in colonies fall 1774. John adams disliked paine, but even before paine"s death, he is not included in the list of leaders in american political culture. Paine complained about his background, but he did not grow up poor (live in thetford,
