All historians credit Thomas Paine's political pamphlet Common Sense with:
A) providing layman's terms for the case of independence.
B) supporting educated elites who opposed independence.
C) asserting that King George III always had the welfare of his subjects in mind.
D) arguing that independence is not the only answer to the problem Americans faced under the British Empire.
E) raising concerns about slave and Native American uprisings.
A
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