The correct answer is A)To convince the American colonies to separate from Britain
Thomas Paine's famous pamhplet <em>Common Sense</em> was written as a means to convince colonists that they would be better of without British control. In the passage above, Paine argues that the colonists would have had more financial success without being controlled by England. This is due to the fact that the colonists were often limited to trading just with England as part of its system of mercantilism. This severely limited the colonists and their ability to trade with other countries.
<span>Lincoln was threatened by Maryland dues to its close proximity to Washington DC.
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<span>These Acts were referred to as the Coercive Acts by American colonists and the Intolerable Acts by the British.</span></span></span>
The people who would most likely support imperialism here would be capitalists and the media. Capitalists because they can produce much higher amounts of goods for a much lower price - exploiting the local population, and the media because they have stories to talk about which sell :)
