Crisis+3+Questions

Crisis 3 Questions

 * 1) What were the main arguments of Thomas Paine in his pamphlet Common Sense?
 * 2) What did the Second Continental Congress of 1775-1776 accomplish?
 * 3) What were the main ideas about government in the Declaration of Independence?
 * 4) How did the radicals persuade others in colonial America to join their cause?
 * 5) What types of individuals formed the leadership of the American “radicals?”
 * 6) What political faction dominated the Second Continental Congress? What was their main purpose?
 * 7) Certain Colonial leaders agreed with the Tory viewpoint. Who were they?
 * 8) Thomas Jefferson borrowed the ideas of others when he wrote his Declaration of Independence. Whose ideas did he borrow? What were some of the sources that he used?
 * 9) Which other colonial leaders helped Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration of Independence?
 * 10) Who was the leader in Parliament on July 4, 1776?