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AP U.S. History 3.5 Period 3: 1754-1800. One effect of the sentiments expressed in the excerpt was...what?
- Reading Informational Text / Analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance his or her point of view
- Reading Informational Text / Analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance his or her point of view
- Reading Informational Text / Determine author’s purpose through effective rhetoric
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Thank you And here's your shmoop du jour brought to
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you by thomas paine the original t pain You might
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not buy you a drink but he will buy you
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some rousing political theories about the extra drama idea form
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And now for a question one effect of the sentiments
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expressed in the excerpt Wass what And here you're potentially
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pain bring you pain Okay When thomas paine sat down
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to write common sense he was looking to unite the
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colonists against a common enemy The british He got the
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job done by tapping into the growing resentment the columnist
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felt toward the british strong centralized government Did you catch
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that last part Because it's important to many people in
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early america including pain the idea of a strong federal
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government was monstrous because it reminded them of monarchy be
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was obviously not paying attention to what we just said
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since it's saying the exact opposite So sorry b just
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wait until opposite day rolls around again And then that
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will be your time to shine Let's check out option
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c This one's got it all wrong The legislative branch
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is supposed to give power to the people and to
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the states so taking its power away would also do
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the opposite of what pain wanted And nobody wanted to
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contradict that guy They didn't call him t pain for
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nothing and then we have choice d which sounds good
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At least you might think that a country founded on
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the idea that every person has rights would set up
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a system where every person's vote counted But think again
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Instead a system was set up where only landowning white
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men could vote yea for freedom By this point it's
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pretty clear that the correct answer is Americans had just
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revolted against a mega strong central government so they were
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determined to avoid that in setting up their own country
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So they wrote the articles of confederation which gave a
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lot of power to individual states After the articles flop
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america eventually found more of a middle ground between state
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and federal power with constitution but then it would split
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apart again during the civil war Maybe common sense should 00:02:02.85 --> [endTime] have been required reading for early americans
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