Common Sense by Thomas Paine was highly instrumental in convincing the colonists that they should separate from Great Britain, since it called into question the idea that such a vast and prosperous land should need the support of a small island nation (Britain).
The revisionists rejected the revolutionary approach
Precambrian time, period of time extending from about 4.6 billion years ago (the point at which Earth began to form) to the beginning of the Cambrian Period, 541 million years ago. Precambrian time encompasses the Archean and Proterozoic eons, which are formal geologic intervals that lasted from 4 billion to about 541 million years ago, and the Hadean Eon, which is an informal interval spanning from 4.6 billion to 4 billion years ago. The Precambrian represents more than 80 percent of the total geologic record.
Britain called them the “Coercive Acts” while America called them the “Intolerable Acts”