COM ARTS 470 : Common Sense
30 Oct 2014
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Initially did not revolt to seek independence, but to force britain to consent to their requests: many colonists were more interested in reconciliation, even after the first breakouts of fights, many political and economic advantages to stay under british rule, physical fighting began to slow due to lack of support, behind the waning enthusiasm, there was also an increase in the, generations of colonized americans and their views began to grow apart impassioned support from those in england, hierarchy, self governance, revolution based in ideas, reasoning rather than class or ethnic division, acts imposed by the british led to the spark of the revolution, the main spark was thomas paine"s common sense, common sense, paine passionately describes independence from britain and a new government, but not one modeled after the government of the corrupt british, states should bring forward a representative form of government.
