Thomas Paine Chapter 3 Summary

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Thomas Paine is known for many popular books in the eighteenth century America. Thomas Paine was born in England in 1737 and never step soul on America until he was the age of thirty-seven. His high intelligence and from the standpoint of the way Paine lived it shows that he was a stronger supporter of the revolution. As a child he went to grammar school until thirteen; nineteen he ran away from home to go too sea. Then, started doing numerous jobs after that; he lost his main job by stamping goods that were suppose to be examined but weren’t. His first wife died after less then a year of marriage, and he was separated from his second wife after three years. Throughout this time he found himself going thru scandals. He landed a job in Philadelphia as a journalist making a name for himself first for a spokesman against slavery and then as the anonymous author of Common Sense. …show more content…

Thomas Paine talks about numerous topics in this story, like for an example how Britain has defended America and all of Americans property. Britain is continuously getting into wars with Spain and France causing them to send American soldiers to war and end up dying. Even though Britain is America’s parent country that is only bound together by their British ancestry, but America is build up from immigrants from Europe. Thomas Paine

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