Iam the cousin of samuel adams and a merchant businessman.

i believed in the ratification of the constitution so much that i wrote 51 essays encouraging states to ratify the constitution.

i spied on british soldiers and reported on their movements.

i am an english american writer who wrote and distributed the pamphlet common sense to encourage colonists to fight for independence.

i didn't like the reduction of state's rights in the new constitution so i encourage the creation of the bill of rights.

i played a key role in introducing the great compromise during the constitutional convention.

1.
paul revere

2.
roger sherman

3.
alexander hamilton

4.
john adams

5.
patrick henry

6.
thomas paine

answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

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