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    education. Thomas Edison did not begin his elementary education until he turned eight years of age, and when he did eventually enroll, he had a difficult time transitioning into the school system. His teachers believed him to be stupid and headstrong. Consequently Edison’s mother took him out of the school, and taught him herself. In the course of a few years she had taught him basic writing, reading, and arithmetic. She exposed him to poets and philosophers such as Shakespeare and Thomas Paine. Thanks

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    was fought then after the Second Continental Congress met. It was at this meeting that they named the future first president, George Washington the commander of the Continental army. After the battles of 1775, in January of 1776 Common Sense by Tom Paine was produced in pamphlet form and became of the first most publicly and widely read writing for independence. Just six month later in June, Congress set forth to create the Deceleration of

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    wealthy and could support the group. Americans’ would spread their political ideas by newspapers printed weekly, and pamphlets were also very common. The most common pamphlet was called Common Sense and it was a “revolutionary tract written by Thomas Paine in January 1776. It called for independence and the establishment of a republican government in America”. “Reading was a very social technique used during this time”. Riots began to get the peoples and governments attention. Religion’s started

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    two great revolutions occurred, the American Revolution and the French Revolution. Between the years of 1775-1783, The American Revolution was fought between the thirteen British colonies in North America and Great Britain, their mother country. Thomas Hutchinson, the royal governor of Massachusetts at the time, sums the reason for war best, saying "‘No middle ground exists between the supreme authority of Parliament and the total dependence of the colonies: it is impossible there should be two

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