E 316M GRADE A Q&A
Thomas Paine - (correct answer)Common Sense
Poor, self-taught, easy language for the common man
"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many
circumstances have, and will, arise which are not local, but universal, and through which
the principles of all lovers of mankind are affected, and in the event of which their
affections are interested. The laying a country desolate with fire and sword, declaring
war against the natural rights of all mankind, and extirpating the defenders thereof from
the face of the earth, is the concern of every man to whom nature hath given the power
of feeling; of which class, regardless of party is
The Author" - (correct answer)Thomas Paine, Common Sense
hyperbole, universality, glosses over the complexities of America, common man's
language, common sense, "cause of all mankind" not just America, making this a huge
historical issue, written in 1776 around Revolutionary War, persuading people to go to
war
"In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and
common sense: and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he
will divest himself of prejudice and prepossession, and suffer his reason and his feelings
to determine for themselves: that he will put on, or rather that he will no put off, the true
character of a man, and generously enlarge his views beyond the present day." -
(correct answer)Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Extremely manipulative
Implies that you are biased if you do not agree with the following arguments
Questions manhood and open-mindedness on disagreement
"simple facts"
"Though I would carefully avoid giving unnecessary offense, yet I am inclined to believe
that all those who espouse the doctrine of reconciliation may be included within the
following descriptions." - (correct answer)Thomas Paine, Common Sense
,"No offense but..."
If you want reconciliation with GB then you are a bad person who is not manly and dull
"I mean not to exhibit horror for the purpose of provoking revenge, but to awaken us
from fatal and unmanly slumbers, that we may pursue determinately some fixed object."
- (correct answer)Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Questioning manhood
Not calling for violence, just waking you up
Helping you by helping you see what is happening
Thomas Jefferson - (correct answer)Bookish, founded University of Virginia, had a lot of
inventions, farmer, relationship/child with at least one slave, wrote Declaration of
Independence
"As the sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject
also." - (correct answer)Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography
History will see that I was correct/ahead of my time
It was wrong of people to want slavery to be legal in the new nation
"He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of
life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating
and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in
their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the
warfare of the christain kind of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where
men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every
legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this
assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those
very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has
deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying
off former crimes against the liberties of one people, with cr - (correct answer)Thomas
Jefferson, Autobiography (removed from declaration)
Extremely raw, angry, aggressive
,Word choice here is strong (prostituted, piratical, horrors, crimes, miserable death)
Bring up relationship with slave and slave ownership
People are complex
"war against human nature itself"
Goes along with the beginning of the declaration that all men are created equal
Phillis Wheatley - (correct answer)Educated black woman prodigy, poems published
during her lifetime, Letter to George Washington, On Being Brought from Africa to
America
"Twas mercy brought me from my pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there's a God, that there's a savior too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor know.
Some view our able race with scornful eye,
'Their color is a diabolic dye.'
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,
May be refined, and join the angelic train." - (correct answer)Phillis Wheatley, On Being
Brought from Africa to America
Multiple readings of this poem (ironic or not?)
Very subtle, full of double meanings
Cain = sugar cane which is refined
train = slave transportation
dye = die
Multiple readings of Remember, Christains, Negroes
Ben Franklin - (correct answer)American persona, has this crazy fur hat, very "self
made", talks a lot about American Dream
, "Savages we call them, because manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection
of civility; they think the same of theirs.
Perhaps, if we could examine the manners of different nations with impartiality, we
should find no people so rude, as to be without any rules of politeness; nor any so polity,
as not to have some remains of rudeness." - (correct answer)Ben Franklin, Remarks
Concerning the Savages of North America
All civilizations are rude and savage to the outsider
Everybody views their own civilization as civil and best
"The good missionary, disgusted with this idle tale, said 'What I delivered to you were
the sacred truths; but what you tell me is mere fable, fiction, and falsehood.' The India,
offended, replied, 'My brother, it seems your friends have not done you justice in your
education; they have not well instructed you in the rules of common civility. You saw that
we, who understand and practice those rules, believed all your stories; why do you
refuse to believe ours?" - (correct answer)Ben Franklin, Remarks Concerning the
Savages of North America
The 'savage' is calling the missionary uncivil
The missionary is being very rude
It is polite to learn the local customs and not offend people
Again use of "common civility" to show that everybody should know this
Story about a speckled Ax - (correct answer)Ben Franklin, Autobiography
Example of American Dream
People don't want to work for perfection
Aim for perfection but there will be errors
"Having a desire to place a few things before my fellow creatures who are traveling with
me to the grave, and to that God who is the maker and preserver both of the white man
and the Indian, whose abilities are the same and who are to judged by one God, who
will show no favor to outward appearances but will judge righteousness. Now I ask if
degradation has not been heaped long enough upon the Indians? And if so, can there
Thomas Paine - (correct answer)Common Sense
Poor, self-taught, easy language for the common man
"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many
circumstances have, and will, arise which are not local, but universal, and through which
the principles of all lovers of mankind are affected, and in the event of which their
affections are interested. The laying a country desolate with fire and sword, declaring
war against the natural rights of all mankind, and extirpating the defenders thereof from
the face of the earth, is the concern of every man to whom nature hath given the power
of feeling; of which class, regardless of party is
The Author" - (correct answer)Thomas Paine, Common Sense
hyperbole, universality, glosses over the complexities of America, common man's
language, common sense, "cause of all mankind" not just America, making this a huge
historical issue, written in 1776 around Revolutionary War, persuading people to go to
war
"In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and
common sense: and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he
will divest himself of prejudice and prepossession, and suffer his reason and his feelings
to determine for themselves: that he will put on, or rather that he will no put off, the true
character of a man, and generously enlarge his views beyond the present day." -
(correct answer)Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Extremely manipulative
Implies that you are biased if you do not agree with the following arguments
Questions manhood and open-mindedness on disagreement
"simple facts"
"Though I would carefully avoid giving unnecessary offense, yet I am inclined to believe
that all those who espouse the doctrine of reconciliation may be included within the
following descriptions." - (correct answer)Thomas Paine, Common Sense
,"No offense but..."
If you want reconciliation with GB then you are a bad person who is not manly and dull
"I mean not to exhibit horror for the purpose of provoking revenge, but to awaken us
from fatal and unmanly slumbers, that we may pursue determinately some fixed object."
- (correct answer)Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Questioning manhood
Not calling for violence, just waking you up
Helping you by helping you see what is happening
Thomas Jefferson - (correct answer)Bookish, founded University of Virginia, had a lot of
inventions, farmer, relationship/child with at least one slave, wrote Declaration of
Independence
"As the sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject
also." - (correct answer)Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography
History will see that I was correct/ahead of my time
It was wrong of people to want slavery to be legal in the new nation
"He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of
life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating
and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in
their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the
warfare of the christain kind of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where
men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every
legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this
assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those
very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has
deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them: thus paying
off former crimes against the liberties of one people, with cr - (correct answer)Thomas
Jefferson, Autobiography (removed from declaration)
Extremely raw, angry, aggressive
,Word choice here is strong (prostituted, piratical, horrors, crimes, miserable death)
Bring up relationship with slave and slave ownership
People are complex
"war against human nature itself"
Goes along with the beginning of the declaration that all men are created equal
Phillis Wheatley - (correct answer)Educated black woman prodigy, poems published
during her lifetime, Letter to George Washington, On Being Brought from Africa to
America
"Twas mercy brought me from my pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there's a God, that there's a savior too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor know.
Some view our able race with scornful eye,
'Their color is a diabolic dye.'
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,
May be refined, and join the angelic train." - (correct answer)Phillis Wheatley, On Being
Brought from Africa to America
Multiple readings of this poem (ironic or not?)
Very subtle, full of double meanings
Cain = sugar cane which is refined
train = slave transportation
dye = die
Multiple readings of Remember, Christains, Negroes
Ben Franklin - (correct answer)American persona, has this crazy fur hat, very "self
made", talks a lot about American Dream
, "Savages we call them, because manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection
of civility; they think the same of theirs.
Perhaps, if we could examine the manners of different nations with impartiality, we
should find no people so rude, as to be without any rules of politeness; nor any so polity,
as not to have some remains of rudeness." - (correct answer)Ben Franklin, Remarks
Concerning the Savages of North America
All civilizations are rude and savage to the outsider
Everybody views their own civilization as civil and best
"The good missionary, disgusted with this idle tale, said 'What I delivered to you were
the sacred truths; but what you tell me is mere fable, fiction, and falsehood.' The India,
offended, replied, 'My brother, it seems your friends have not done you justice in your
education; they have not well instructed you in the rules of common civility. You saw that
we, who understand and practice those rules, believed all your stories; why do you
refuse to believe ours?" - (correct answer)Ben Franklin, Remarks Concerning the
Savages of North America
The 'savage' is calling the missionary uncivil
The missionary is being very rude
It is polite to learn the local customs and not offend people
Again use of "common civility" to show that everybody should know this
Story about a speckled Ax - (correct answer)Ben Franklin, Autobiography
Example of American Dream
People don't want to work for perfection
Aim for perfection but there will be errors
"Having a desire to place a few things before my fellow creatures who are traveling with
me to the grave, and to that God who is the maker and preserver both of the white man
and the Indian, whose abilities are the same and who are to judged by one God, who
will show no favor to outward appearances but will judge righteousness. Now I ask if
degradation has not been heaped long enough upon the Indians? And if so, can there
