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Why did Thomas Paine publish Common Sense?

• to convince Britain it could not govern the colonies well
® to let foreign countries know the colonies were ready to fight Britain
• to convince colonists that the colonies should become independent
• to force Southern colonies to support Northern ones in the coming war

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to convince colonists that the colonies should become independent
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