{"id":2919,"date":"2016-07-04T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=2919"},"modified":"2022-09-30T07:30:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T11:30:43","slug":"independence-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heritageprintingcharlotte.com\/blog\/independence-day-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the refurbishing of a blockbuster 1996 movie, the phrase “Independence Day”<\/em><\/span> may temporarily replace \u201cThe 4th\u201d as the descriptive term we use for celebrating separation from Great Britain and the American Revolution.<\/p>\n

In the 18th century, the 13 colonies of America were struggling with the governing of Great Britain, they sought complete and total freedom from \u201cThe King\u2019s\u201d rule, which had shadowed the colonist on their journey across the ocean.<\/p>\n

REVOLUTIONARY WAR<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The earliest recorded battles of the Revolutionary War were in April of 1775, when radical colonist hostilities grew rampant and overflowed into violence against Great Britain. The publication \u201cCommon Sense\u201d, a best-seller by Thomas Paine, was published in January of 1776 and fueled the revolutionary fire under most Americans.<\/p>\n

Paine repeatedly made two clear and publicly supported points:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Independence from England<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. To create a democratic republic<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Almost 120,000 copies of “Common Sense”<\/span><\/em> were in circulation within 4 months! Paine chose to write in layman\u2019s terms and often quoted the Bible to intensify his message of freedom, the Bible was something most Americans knew extensively. It had the ear of the community and the outcry for independence from King Georges\u2019 taxes and brutality rang loudly in the colonies.<\/p>\n

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    Thomas Paine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    “Common Sense”<\/span><\/em> held the attention of Americans and the desire for separation intensified. As the summer season arrived, Paine increased his attacks; asking the obvious and legitimate questions his readers were already publicly proclaiming:<\/p>\n