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Choose ONE of the following questions and answer it with a clear, thesis-driven essay. DO NOT answer both questions. In Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, he argues that, when looking at the question of whether or not the colonies should stay bound to Britain because things had been well so far, that “we may as well assert that because a child has thrived upon milk, that it is never to have meat….” What does this quote mean in practice, and how does it reflect the realities of American life and their new ideologies in 1776? Within your answer, you must situate the writing within its context. Following the Boston Massacre, future president and patriot, John Adams, defended the British soldiers in court, gaining them a mere charge of manslaughter and not murder. Why would John Adams defend the soldiers, despite personally believing that this was a massacre, and what can that tell us about the complex beliefs of Americans before the Revolution? Within your answer, you should discuss loyalists vs patriots and complicate that binary paradigm through the example of John Adams.

In the “French and Indian War,” the Native Americans (with some exceptions) mostly fought on what side?”

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This campaign was critical in securing French support for the American cause during the war.

Colonists who remained loyal to the British during the Revolutionary War were known as what?

What British general famously surrendered at Yorktown while a band played “The World Turned Upside Down?”

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