What did Thomas Paine mean when he said, "These are the times that try men's souls," Americans must resist the temptation to be just "summer soldiers and sunshine patriots"?
The Patriots are facing difficult challenges.
The Patriots need to make a long-term commitment to fight.
The Patriots need to support their cause in good times and bad times.
All of the above.

All of the above.

Explanation:

When mentioning the phrase stated in the question, Thomas Paine refers to the moment of extreme tension and difficulty that would be generated as a consequence of the beginning of the American Revolution. Thus, the patriotic thinker referred to the fact that the soldiers and other defenders of the American cause would see their convictions put to the test by a bloody war and a political and economic situation of extreme urgency and difficulty, which would put American society in general in a crisis. series of difficult challenges to face.

For this reason, Paine appealed to the will of the patriots to defend the revolutionary cause even in the event of military defeats or economic emergencies, motivating the colonists to resist and support the independence of the United States.

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this means that germany had to pay the allied countries. reparations are/is essentially payment for something that they have done wrong, so after ww1, germany was forced to pay reparations so they could replenish the allied countries resources' that they had lost during the war.