Put yourself in the shoes of an American colonist who is attending the Second Continental Congress as a delegate at the start of 1776, and who is strongly opposed to the independence of the 13 North American colonies from the British Empire. Give a fiery speech in which you summarize the main arguments of Thomas Paine's Common Sense and counter those arguments point by point.

Though American colonists were ultimately victorious in the Revolutionary War, they faced numerous disadvantages throughout the conflict.  Other problems, like the lack of political unity or a stable currency, added to the list of American disadvantages.

two months after his defeat of napoleon bonaparte's colonial forces, jean-jacques dessalines proclaims the independence of saint-domingue, renaming it haiti after its original arawak name. in 1791, a slave revolt erupted on the french colony, and toussaint-louverture, a former slave, took control of the rebels.

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