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AP U.S. History Exam 1.10
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AP U.S. History Exam 1.10. What was the major concern of colonists who opposed the provisions listed in the excerpt?

AP U.S. History Exam 2.10
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AP U.S. History Exam 2.10. What does the excerpt suggest about the movement for American independence?

AP U.S. History 3.2 Period 3: 1754-1800
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AP U.S. History 3.2 Period 3: 1754-1800. The enactment of the goals expressed in the excerpt directly led to...what?

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AP U.S. History Exam 1.12 170 Views


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AP U.S. History Exam 1.12. Which of the following had the greatest impact on the political ideas Paine expressed in the excerpt?

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Sorry And here's your smoke du jour brought to you

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by influence the virus that makes you incredibly weak willed

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her stop the excerpt along maladies power and usurpation of

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paint And now the question which of the following had

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the greatest impact on the political ideas pain expressed in

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the excerpt And here your potential answers All right though

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pain was a gifted thinker he did quite a bit

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of borrowing from some of the other really big ideas

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at the time Let's See which answer best describes the

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source of paine's Common sense was the event that had

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the biggest impact on pains Political ideas a the industrial

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revolution Well the industrial revolution was about advances in mechanized

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factory work Not a monarchs abuse of power So that

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steam rules eh Was thomas paine's source of inspiration See

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the french revolution We'll strike that Reverse it Pain's political

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ideas were quite influential during the early days of the

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french revolution Especially the bit about overthrowing the king though

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it's not see either What about d The reformation reformation

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refers to the martin luther led split in western christianity

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resulting in the creation of protestantism Revolutionary sure about tackling

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a very different beast which means the movement that had

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the greatest impact on the ideas in this excerpt was

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beat The enlightenment Enlightenment was in full swing in europe

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while payne was writing his pamphlet and it's Big ideas

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of natural rights and self government clearly worked their way

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into his writing So the correct answer is b pain

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may have been a great philosopher in his own right

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but even the brightest bulbs need a little spark to 00:01:42.515 --> [endTime] get going

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