Who did the most to promote the cause of independence: george washington, thomas jefferson, or thomas paine? give reasons for your choice.

Thomas Paine did the most to promote the cause of independence.

Explanation:

Thomas Payne was an English-American writer, philosopher and publicist. Having first arrived in America at the age of 37, Payne supported independentist sentiments in the popular pamphlet Common sense, written in 1776, and became the ideologist of the American Revolution.

In his Common Sense, which was distributed and distributed among the inhabitants of the United States, he argued for the liberation of the United States from Britain. He published it anonymously. The script convinced many, such as George Washington, that the right thing was to liberate the United States from England. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Rush got ideas from the script when writing the Declaration of Independence, and the script was also admired by Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Alva Edison.

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