In the US I assume? Taxation without representation is always a classic.
Paine connected independence with common dissenting Protestant beliefs as a means to present a distinctly American political identity and structured Common Sense as if it were a sermon. Historian Gordon S. Wood described Common Sense as "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era."
People revolted
People wanted to leave the country but couldn't.
In New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania were under snow cover in that season