4. Match the main works in this unit to their description. A. From The American Crisis

B. Aboard a Slave Ship

C. From Common Sense

D. The Declaration of Independence

E. The Star-Spangled Banner

F. The Autobiography of Benjamin
Franklin

1. One man's description of how he tried to achieve moral perfection.

2. A work that passionately argued why the colonies needed to declare independence from
Great Britain.

3. A document written to motivate weary troops in their fight for American independence.

4. The document that officially severed ties between the colonies and Great Britain. It gives the rationales for seeking independence.

5. A recounting of one slave's harrowing voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.

6. A poem written to celebrate how the American flag kept flying over Fort McHenry during an attack on Baltimore during the War
of 1812.

5. Thomas Paine uses several different writing techniques to develop his arguments in Common Sense. Match the quotes with the technique he uses.

A. Thomas Paine develops his
argument by using logical
arguments to show why it was
impractical to for England to
continue ruling the colonies.

B. Thomas Paine develops his
argument by presenting
counterarguments and showing
why they are wrong.

C. Thomas Paine develops his
argument by using powerful
metaphors to portray the
relationship between England
and the colonies.

1. "I have heard it asserted by some, that as America hath flourished under her former
connection with Great Britain, that the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. We may as well assert, that because a child has thrived upon milk, that it is never to have meat: or that the first
twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty" (36).

2. "This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embrace of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster" (36).

3. "As to government matters, it is not in the powers of Britain to do this continent justice: The business of it will soon be too weighty, and intricate, to be managed with any tolerable degree of convenience, by a power so distant from us, and so very ignorant of us; for if they cannot conquer us, they cannot govern us. To be always running three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition. waiting four or five months for an answer, which when obtained requires five or six more to explain it in, will in a few years be looked upon as folly and childishness- there was a time when it was proper, and there is a proper time for it to cease" (37).