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THOMAS PAINE

at the time, only lawyers wrote panphlets that were hard to understand, were written for well educated people paine wrote in a common way so common people could understand it as the fighting continued the continental congress believed it was time to make the idea of independence a reality

DECLARATION

The delegates edited it from July 2nd to july 4th, and sent it to a print shop to be printed that day

during the mid 1700's British passed a number of laws that the colonists didn't agree with

citations: Call to Freedom social studies book http://www.classbrain.com/artteensb/publish/article_228.shtml

sale throughout colonies and europe reached 500,000 copies || ||
 * Thomas Paine wrote a panphlet called "Common Sense," and argued for breaking away from Great Britian || [[image:thomas_paine.jpg width="165" height="180" align="center"]] ||
 * written by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Thomas Jefferson || [[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:LyYz0Vnzgc7FyM:http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/images/trumbull-large1.jpg width="150" height="96" link="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/images/trumbull-large1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/trumbull.htm&h=897&w=1400&sz=291&hl=en&start=9&tbnid=LyYz0Vnzgc7FyM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddeclaration%2Bof%2Bindependence%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX"]] ||
 * monarchs ruled most of the world and paine believed that the people should govern themselves || [[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:FMjq7Ta84hUrjM:http://muslihoon.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/king-george-vi-b.jpg width="125" height="140" link="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://muslihoon.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/king-george-vi-b.jpg&imgrefurl=http://muslihoon.wordpress.com/2006/07/11/india-gandhi-urdu-hindi-british-monarchs-and-other-stuff/&h=702&w=626&sz=224&hl=en&start=4&tbnid=FMjq7Ta84hUrjM:&tbnh=140&tbnw=125&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbritish%2Bmonarch%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den"]][[ ||
 * John Hancock and Charles Thomson also added their signatures || [[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:T7XlPg48g8EmdM:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/adams/peopleevents/images/e_declaration_03.jpg width="151" height="105" link="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/adams/peopleevents/images/e_declaration_03.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/adams/peopleevents/e_declaration.html&h=137&w=160&sz=7&hl=en&start=17&tbnid=T7XlPg48g8EmdM:&tbnh=84&tbnw=98&prev=/images%3Fq%3DJOhn%2BHancock%2Band%2Bcharles%2Bthomson%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX"]] ||
 * within 3 months,colonists bought 120 thousand copies of the panphlet
 * In June 1776 the continental, influenced influenced by the suggestion of Richard Henry Lee appionted 5 people to write a document || [[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:6qfO72gYQsgPmM:http://www.boalmuseum.com/Richard%2520Henry%2520Lee%25206B.jpg width="141" height="160" link="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.boalmuseum.com/Richard%2520Henry%2520Lee%25206B.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.boalmuseum.com/gardenparty.htm&h=1533&w=974&sz=208&hl=en&start=4&tbnid=6qfO72gYQsgPmM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=95&prev=/images%3Fq%3DRichard%2BHEnry%2BLee%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den"]] ||
 * King George III ignored the colonists complaints. || [[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:nBCu20X_gkn0fM:http://www.britishbattles.com/images/king-george-iii.jpg width="99" height="119" link="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.britishbattles.com/images/king-george-iii.jpg&imgrefurl=http://web2k.wsfcs.k12.nc.us/seastms/Maxcy/4th/12/resources.htm&h=331&w=275&sz=11&hl=en&start=14&tbnid=nBCu20X_gkn0fM:&tbnh=119&tbnw=99&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dking%2Bgeorge%2BIII%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den"]] ||
 * Took from June 11th to June 28th 1776 to write the rough draft || [[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:t-UMRBGWrn0FSM:http://www.learnnc.org/lp/media/projects/collaboration/declarationdraft.jpg width="119" height="147" link="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.learnnc.org/lp/media/projects/collaboration/declarationdraft.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/collab101/5&h=500&w=339&sz=90&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=t-UMRBGWrn0FSM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=88&prev=/images%3Fq%3DDeclaration%2Bof%2Bindependence%2Brough%2Bdraft%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX"]] ||
 * Thomas Jefferson was the one who wrote the Declaration of Independance || [[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:teSLS3YzcVE4zM:http://jpetrie.myweb.uga.edu/TJ%25202%2520436X500.jpg width="113" height="130" link="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://jpetrie.myweb.uga.edu/TJ%25202%2520436X500.jpg&imgrefurl=http://jpetrie.myweb.uga.edu/TJ.html&h=500&w=436&sz=36&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=teSLS3YzcVE4zM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=113&prev=/images%3Fq%3DThomas%2Bjefferson%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den"]] ||
 * The colonists had to rebel because nothing else was working || [[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:8RqiLnej1rvzLM:http://www.uppercanadahistory.ca/uel/uel3p7.jpg width="124" height="123" link="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.uppercanadahistory.ca/uel/uel3p7.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.uppercanadahistory.ca/uel/uel3.html&h=400&w=404&sz=51&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=8RqiLnej1rvzLM:&tbnh=123&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3D1776%2Brebelling%2Bcolonists%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den"]] ||