Challenging History Problems with Detailed Answers
12.What is Thomas Paine trying to convince the colonists to do in this excerpt from his CommonSense pamphlet?Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us? Whoever says Noto this question, is an INDEPENDENT, for independency means no more, than, whether weshall make our own laws, or whether the king, the greatest enemy this continent hath, or canhave, shall tell us "THERE SHALL BE NO LAWS BUT SUCH AS I LIKE."Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776Source: Public Domain/Project GutenbergA. veto the Stamp ActB.C.D.declare independencesign the King's petitionreinstate the Intolerable ActsPage 5 of 15
"The American Republicans of the city and county of Philadelphia, who are determined to support the NATIVE [White, Protestant] AMERICANS in their Constitutional Rights of peaceably assembling to express their opinions on any question of Public Policy, and to SUSTAIN THEM AGAINST THE ASSAULTS OF ALIENS AND FOREIGNERS are requested to assemble on MONDAY AFTERNOON, May 6th, 1844 at 4 o'clock, at the corner of Master and Second street, Kensington [a section of Philadelphia], to express their indignation [anger] at the outrage on Friday evening last, which was perpetrated by the Irish Catholics."Text from a poster announcing a meeting of the American Republican Party, later renamed the American Party, Philadelphia, 1844Historians could best use the excerpt as an example of the following?A. Expansion of voting rights during the Jackson administrationB. Debates over the separation of church and state in the United StatesC. Advocacy for policies promoting the idea of Manifest DestinyD. Political responses to changing demographics in the United States