In “The American Crisis: Number 1” by Thomas Paine, he states that the best thing for American people to do is to fight for their independence from Great Britain. Paine is able to persuade the people that this is the right thing to do through his writing.

The American Crisis is a collection of articles written by Thomas Paine during the American Revolutionary War. The essays collected here constitute Paine’s ongoing support for an independent and self-governing America through the many severe crises of the Revolutionary War.

The Crisis was a series of essays by Paine intended to, in short, rally the Continental troops who had suffered a series of defeats at the hands of the British. The army seemed likely to disintegrate through both expired enlistments and desertions, not to mention the ever-present possibility that they…

Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared, that she has a right ( (not only to TAX) but “to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER,” and if being bound in that manner is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth.

“Crisis no. 1” was read to the Continental Army prior to the Battle of Trenton and helped to rally the troops. While disheartened patriots were his primary audience, Paine also hoped this pamphlet would convince people still loyal to Britain to turn and fight for the Americans.

Thomas Paine’s “The Crisis, No. 1” addressed ordinary Americans. The author’s main purpose was to inspire Americans to fight for independence from British rule. He viewed British rule in the American colonies as tyrannical.

What tyranny is Paine speaking of? While many other writers spoke of England trampling on the British rights of colonials, but believed King George III would soon rectify the wrongs done to the colonies, Paine argued that the entire British system was fundamentally based on a tyranny of aristocracy and monarchy.

The American Crisis series was used to “recharge the revolutionary cause.” Paine, like many other politicians and scholars, knew that the colonists were not going to support the American Revolutionary War without proper reason to do so.

The “crisis” that Paine refers to in both the title and the first paragraph of the essay is the tests that the American people have to undergo in their quest to be free from the British Empire.

Paine wanted to enable the distraught patriots to stand, to persevere, and to fight for an American victory. Paine published the first Crisis paper on December 19th. Its opening sentence was adopted as the watchword of the movement to Trenton.

Thomas Paine was born January 29, 1737, in Norfolk, England, the son of a Quaker corset maker and his older Anglican wife.

During the American Revolution, Paine served as a volunteer personal assistant to General Nathanael Greene, traveling with the Continental Army. While not a natural soldier, Paine contributed to the patriot cause by inspiring the troops with his 16 “Crisis” papers, which appeared between 1776 and 1783.