Narrowing Down to a Research Topic

I have had a lot of issues trying to decide on what exactly my final paper is going to be about. I have finished my annotated bibliography and I should start grasping some sort of idea as to what I am going to argue for my final paper. I'm thinking about writing about how American history would be different without the writings of Thomas Paine. His writing sparked the American Revolution, not to mention the French Revolution, but that is another story. Without him in our history we could be under the rule of Britain. He is somebody that a lot of people are not very knowledgeable of and I'd just like to help people see what an impact he has made on our lives today.