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SAT US History Practice Question

In The American Crisis, no. 1, Thomas Paine referred to "the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot." Whom did he mean?

  1. A.Traitors to the U.S. Army
  2. B.People who had supported independence before the war but changed their minds once it began
  3. C.Colonists who had remained loyal to Great Britain all along
  4. D.Soldiers who fired on the mobs during the Boston Massacre
  5. E.Redcoats who fired on the minutemen, who were British subjects like themselves

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