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Thomas Paine did jeopardized our nation writing Common Sense. In Using Common Sense he separated America from England. That was good, making us a independent country, freely trading, and having Freedom for its people. Common Sense also made it so that we were free from monarchy or other forms of government in which a individual rules and its decedent rule afterwards, or a high class rule over it all. He also help passed and abolition act that freed 6,000 slaves. In conclusion Thomas Pain and Common Sense help change and shape what we know of America now.

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https://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/thomas-paine

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Paine

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Starting in April 1777, Paine worked for two years as secretary to the Congressional Committee for Foreign Affairs and then became the clerk for the Pennsylvania Assembly at the end of 1779.

In March 1780, the assembly passed an abolition act that freed 6,000 slaves, to which Paine wrote the preamble.

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“These are the times that try men’s souls.”

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“These are the times that try men’s souls.”

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The bad condition of Washington’s troops during the winter of 1776 lead Paine to publish a series of inspirational pamphlets known as “The American Crisis,” which opens with the famous line “These are the times that try men’s souls.”

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Paine's most famous pamphlet, "Common Sense" it was first published in January 10, 1776 selling thousands of copies immediately. At the end of the year it had sold over 150,000 copies and that is a enormous amount for its time.
“Common Sense” is credited as playing a crucial role in convincing colonists to take up arms against England (who was ruling over America at the time). He also said to break apart from England. In Common Sense he argues that representational government is better than a monarchy or other forms of government that is based on aristocracy and heredity.

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Paine arrived in America on November 30, 1774. On the ship that sent Thomas Paine to America, he almost died from scurvy. When he arrived in Pennsylvania  he immediately got a job in journalism, becoming managing editor of Philadelphia Magazine.

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Thomas Paine was born on January 29, 1737, in Thetford, Norfolk, England. He died on June 8, 1809, in New York, U.S. His formal education was meager, just enough for him to master reading, writing, and arithmetic.
At the age of 13, he begins work with his father as a corset maker and then tried other occupants but was unsuccessful. Paine dreamed of a naval career, attempting once at age 16 to sign onto a ship called The Terrible, commanded by someone named Captain Death, but Paine’s father intervened. Then finally becoming an officer of the excise duty. His duties were to hunt for smugglers and collect the excise taxes on liquor and tobacco. The payment was insufficient to cover living costs, but he used him earning to buy books and scientific apparatus.
Life in England was hard he repeatedly failed in finding a job either was unsuccessful or unhappy in every job he tried and he had two brief marriages. He was also fired his previous job working as an excise office. Just when things started to look bad he met Benjamin Franklin. Franklin advised him to seek his fortune in America.