Explanation: In my opinion, I would say it's either A or C. Options D or B wouldn't match the description, but I think that it's C, "One ethnic group was almost eliminated" because camps were set up to exterminate those. As for A, this happened BUT it was uncommon.
It would be common sense because that's the only option that Paine actually wrote
And the other is Declaration of Independence because Jefferson wrote it declaring the colonies independent of British control