Question

What major point was Thomas Paine trying to make using the evidence in this passage?

The British army was thoroughly unprepared to take on the American colonists.
The Continental Army had a realistic chance of winning against the British.

Answer 1

Common Sense was an instant best-seller. Published in January 1776 in Philadelphia, nearly 120,000 copies were in circulation by April. Paine's brilliant arguments were straightforward. He argued for two main points: (1) independence from England and (2) the creation of a democratic republic

Answer 2

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Step-by-step explanation:

The Continental Army had a realistic chance of winning against the British.

“Common Sense” is credited as playing a crucial role in convincing colonists to take up arms against England. In it, Paine argues that representational government is superior to a monarchy or other forms of government based on aristocracy and heredity.

Paine also claimed that the American colonies needed to break with England in order to survive and that there would never be a better moment in history for that to happen. He argued that America was related to Europe as a whole, not just England, and that it needed to freely trade with nations like France and Spain.