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Thomas Paine and the Power of Common Sense
Analyze how Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense persuaded widespread public support for complete independence.
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Causes of the American Revolution
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Analyze the political, economic, and ideological factors that led British colonists in America to declare independence.
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SS.5.15West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All agesSummarize the significance of large-scale immigration and the contributions of immigrants to America in the early 1900s (e.g., the countries from which they came, the opportunities and resistance they faced when they arrived and the cultural and economic contributions they made to this nation, etc.).
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