DBQ– The American Revolution “Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph” (Thomas Paine’s “The Crisis”). Thomas Paine wrote “The Crisis” in order to revive the spirits of Washington’s cold and hungry troops during the American Revolutionary War. This gave much hope to the troops because it gave them the mind set that even though the battle …showed first 75 words of 1692 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1692 total…towards the American’s freedom and separation from Britain. Through the declaration, the colonists basically state that they want nothing more to do with Britain and Parliament. The next hurdle would be to defeat them in the upcoming American Revolutionary War that would ultimately break the ties with America and the British Parliament forever. Just as stated several years before in 1737 by Thomas Paine, “Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation” (“Common Sense”).