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Some study questions on the Revolution and on Tom Paine

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History 350: American Radicalism

Tom Paine and President Obama!

I. Common Sense another online version of the document
A. Style
B. Contents
        1. Independence
        2. Republicanism
        3. Nationalism

II. Paine as International Revolutionary
    A. War propagandist in America--The American Crisis (1776-1783)

    B. French Revolution
        1. The Rights of Man (1791-92)
        2. Hero and victim of the Revolution

    C. Growing old, staying controversial
        1. Paine's Deism--The Age of Reason (1794)
        2. Political obscurity in America

III. Paine's Legacy
    A. National unity or cohesion with factions? Paine vs. James Madison
(Link to Madison's famous "Tenth Federalist" paper) Link to excerpts

    B. Paine and artisan republicanism
www.tompaine.com--activists today honor Paine another activist site praises Paine
  Tom Paine Nat'l Historical Association some groups still celebrate his birthday!

                              Tom Paine                                      Edmund Burke, Author of Reflections on
                                                                                the Revolution in France
Paine answered Burke's attack on the French
                                                                                            Revolution in The Rights of Man.