Thomas Paine (1737–1809) was a radical writer who emigrated from England to America in 1774. Just two years later, early in 1776, Paine published Common Sense, a hugely influential pamphlet that convinced many American colonists that the time had finally come to break away from British rule. In Common Sense, Paine made a persuasive and passionate argument to the colonists that the cause of independence was just and urgent. The first prominent pamphleteer to advocate a complete break with England, Paine successfully convinced a great many Americans who'd previously thought of themselves as loyal, if disgruntled, subjects of the king.
The Neolithic Revolution was followed by the <span>Paleolithic Period.</span>
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.
<span>This was the Populist movement. This movement held that the farmer and worker needed to be on a more level footing with those in the business world. Their party platform consisted of such progressive ideals as the direct election of Senators and an increase in the currency put into circulation. William Jennings Bryan was one of the most popular and charismatic of the leaders of this party during the late 19th-century.</span>
