Answers questions on Thomas Paine's Common Sense, the 1776 pamphlet arguing for American independence, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.
“86 The object, contended for, ought always to bear some just proportion to the expence. The removal of North, or the whole detestable junto, is a matter unworth…”
Answers questions on the 1911 Boy Scouts Handbook: the Scout Law, camping, knots, woodcraft and nature study, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“The American Revolution The story of the American Revolution (1775-1783)--Declaration of Independence (1776), the adoption of the Articles of Confederation (178…”
Answers questions on Hendrik van Loon's The Story of Mankind: Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the revolutions, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“## THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AT THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY EUROPE HEARD STRANGE REPORTS OF SOMETHING WHICH HAD HAPPENED IN THE WILDERNESS; OF THE NORTH AME…”
Answers questions on H. G. Wells's A Short History of the World, from the origins of life and the first civilisations to the First World War, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“## LIV THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE The third quarter of the eighteenth century thus saw the remarkable and unstable spectacle of a Europe divided against i…”
Answers questions on Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, his defence of the French Revolution and natural rights against Burke, quoting The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume II from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the part.
“…nd upon, we might raise the world." The revolution of America presented in politics what was only theory in mechanics. So deeply rooted were all the governments…”
Answers questions on Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Part I: equality, local self-government and the tyranny of the majority, quoting Henry Reeve's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain).
“…tendencies, the one prompting the Anglo-Americans to unite, the other to divide their strength. As long as the war with the mother-country lasted the principle …”
Answers travel questions on Canada and Toronto: distances, transit, weather, tipping and sights, citing the Wikivoyage guides (CC BY-SA). Check current details before you travel.
“…ting British Thirteen Colonies, but the American Revolution was another key turning point. The Americans were fed up with how the British monarchy's increasing …”
Answers questions on The Art of Public Speaking by Esenwein and Carnegie: confidence, voice, gesture, preparation and holding an audience, quoting the 1915 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain).
“…tional standard that would not make the American Revolution—an insurrection of thirteen little colonies, with a population of 3,000,000 scattered in a distant w…”
Answers questions on Thoreau's Walden, two years of simple living by Walden Pond, quoting the 1854 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to and to resist the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are gre…”
Answers questions on The Federalist Papers, the 85 essays arguing for the U.S. Constitution, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the paper number.
“…ndred blood which flows in the veins of American citizens, the mingled blood which they have shed in defense of their sacred rights, consecrate their Union, and…”