loyalists
Yes, Thomas Jefferson did explain why the colonies should break away from Great Britain. He created the document, Declaration of Independance, that stated that the American colonies had the right to break away from Great Britain.
The Common Sense pamphlet urged the 13 colonies to fight for their independence from Great Britain. It had a wide distribution in meeting places.
They decided to completely break away from Great Britain.
More than half the members of the colonies wanted to break away from Britain. There was general discontentment about the amount of taxes the colonies had to pay to the British king.
common sense
One prominent American colonist who favored independence from Britain was Thomas Paine. His influential pamphlet, "Common Sense," published in 1776, argued for the colonies' break from British rule and advocated for self-governance. Paine's writings helped galvanize public opinion in favor of independence and played a crucial role in shaping the revolutionary sentiment among colonists.
The colonists in America (the New World) wrote their Declaration of Independence to break away from Britain/England. So first of all, they wrote it to Britain to explain their succession. Secondly, they wrote to the rest of the world, justifying the wrongs of an oppressive monarch. Lastly, they wrote to the people of the colonies.
The colonies' major complaints were that there was too much political control from Britain, as well as too many taxes, and a lack of independence in governing the colonies. The colonies also wanted to have tighter control over the native population. The solution was for the colonies to break ties with Britain and subservience to the monarchy.
The Declaration of Independence
As Britain kept adding taxes, requiring people to house soldiers and other laws people came to believe that they would be better off managing their own country.
America broke away from England which is part of Great Britain.
What pamphlet convinced many that the American colonies needed to make a formal break with Great Britain