121) Colbert was served as a minister in the Court of

122) Thomas Paine was a radical writer who emigrated from ....to America in 1774.

123) Early in 1776, ....published Common Sense, a hugely influential pamphlet that convinced many American colonists that the time had finally come to break away from British rule.

124) In Common Sense, ....made a persuasive and passionate argument to the colonists that the cause of independence was just and urgent.

125) Who wrote the controversial work, The Age of Reason?