Thomas Paine's Common Sense

Multiple Choice

Thomas Paine's Common Sense

A) argued that the British governmental system was perfectly good but that current officials had corrupted it.
B) made highly original arguments in favor of independence.
C) sold well among the elite, who in turn were able to convey its ideas to the lower classes.
D) argued that America would become the home of freedom and "an asylum for mankind."
E) led to his arrest on charges of treason, but he saved himself by writing another pamphlet taking the opposite position.