3. growing pains
• Before Thomas Pain immigrated to America he
worked as a tax collector in england. He was fired
from his job because of one of the propositions he
made to about lifting wages for tax collectors.
George Washington heard of this proposition and
admired the young mans drive and sponsored his
immigration to America
4. • During this time the colonies felt
like they had no control- England
controlled everything. Thomas
Pain came over right as the
colonies were at war with
England.
Thomas Pain took part in the
revolt against Britain, taking a
much different approach.
5. • Thomas Pain created a 47 page pamphlet about
American independence. It was organized into
different sections, devoted to different topics. It
talked about slavery, the king’s power women's
rights...
Pain ran into a problem. Because it basically talked
about dethroning monarchy- no printers wanted
print it. Finally on February 14, 1776 Common Sense
was printed. In three months 120,000 copies were
sold- half a million were sold in a year.
6. • Common Sense became huge. People would read it
on corners of streets- everyone owned a copy of
Common sense. It was, at that time equivocal to a
bible.
Many founding fathers agreed on Pains thought of
anti slavery but were afraid to stand up against
slavery due to all the problems ending it would
cause..
7. • poor thomas pain there he lies:
no body laughs and no body cries
where he has gone and how he fares-
nobody knows and nobody cares.
