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What was Thomas Paine's primary purpose in writing "The Crisis, No. 1"?

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"The Crisis No. 1"encourages Americans to support the Revolutionary War. Throughout the essay, he uses metaphors to mock the British army, and Thomas Paine even goes as far to declare that British rule over the Americans is similar to slavery.
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