All throughout Common Sense, Thomas Paine uses several negative terms in reference to King George III and his peers. Some of them include:
Evil
Royal Brute
Miscreant
Parasite
Barbarous
Bully
Savage Manners
Hard Hearted
Cruelty of a Monster
You get to be the official Colonial America Police Sketch Artist. If a victim of the king's restrictive policies came to you and described the King with the above terms, how would you draw King George III?
On the next page is an empty face with a crown on the head. Use the features found on the page that follows and create your own King George.
Ready? Let's start drawing...
Colonial America was a continent with multiple cultures and customs spanning vast geographic distances. Tom Paine's amazing persuasive essay Common Sense unified these seemingly conflicting characteristics into an extraordinary vision.
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