“These are the times that try men's souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. 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
The words above might have been written while ___________________
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the British were realizing that the Americans would not be easily defeated
the Continental Congress was debating reconciliation with King George III
the French were sending allied forces to the New World *
the Continental Army was losing battles against the professional British forces
“We got all over the bay and landed on the opposite shore betwixt twelve and one o’clock and was on our march by one, which was at first through some swamps and slips of the Sea till we got into the Road leading to Lexington soon after which the Country people begun to fire their alarm guns, light their Beacons, to raise the Country.”
The events referred to above were the most direct result of____________
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King George III’s decision to allow the enactment of the Townshend Acts
Benjamin Franklin’s decision to support the crown’s decision to tax tea *
Samuel Adam’s decision to publicize the events of the Boston Massacre
General Thomas Gage’s decision to seize the gunpowder and firearms of Massachusetts colonists
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