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The 18th century is known as "The Age of ______."
What is Reason?
What is rationalism?
What are the "Great First Cause" and the "Clock-winder"?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This person served as Virginia's governor but never held national office.
This person was the foremost political pamphleteer of his day.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This published writing was written to persuade uncommitted colonists to unite in seeking political independence.
What is Common Sense?
These papers were written to encourage the Continental army.
What are The American Crisis papers?
This rationalist, deistic work shows Thomas Paine's actual beliefs about Christianity.
What is The Age of Reason?
This person drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Thomas Jefferson doubled the land of the United States through what political deal?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
What is a syllogism?
What is deductive reasoning?
This author is the first African American to publish a book.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
This term means "instruction in literature."
What is didacticism?
Writers who emulated Greek and Roman writers came to be known as __________________.
What is neoclassical?
The type of poetic verse that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
A pair of rhymed lines in iambic pentameter is called ________________________.
What are heroic couplets?
The major premise of the Declaration of Independence.
What is "Men have the right to overthrow a tyrant."
This is the minor premise of the Declaration of Independence.
The reason Franklin was called the "Ungodly Puritan"
What is because he embraced Puritan values but rejected Puritan theology?
The book Franklin wrote for his children
What is his Autobiography?
The man who said "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
The term that is defined as "the use of syntactical parallelism in two adjacent phrases or clauses to emphasize their contrasting meanings."
What is antithesis?
The term that is defined as "the repetition of words or phrases at the beginnings of lines."
What is anaphora?
The term that is defined as "broadly political persuasive writing that uses emotional appeal to bypass reason."
What is propaganda?
The movement that emulated the aesthetics of Greek and Roman writing.
What is neoclassicism?
The day the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is July 4, 1776?
Finish the quote:
"All men are created ______________."
What is equal?
Who is George Whitefield?