"Age of Reason"
This period began an intellectual and philosophical movement that rejected premodern religiosity in favor of scientific knowledge about the natural world.
What is the Enlightenment?
This English philosopher and physician was regarded as one of the most influential thinkers during the Enlightenment and believed men should have access to Life, Liberty, and Property.
Who is John Locke?
This document contains only one religious reference in Article VII.
What is the Constitution?
This American polymath was an active scientist, inventor, and diplomat who wrote the first part of his autobiography in the form of a letter to his son.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
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Thomas Paine
This religious philosophy rejected the idea of a personal god involved in the affairs of human beings, positing a creator who is analogous to a watchmaker.
What is deism?
A place where people of similar classes, interests and outlooks came together to discuss literature, politics, philosophy, or current events.
What is a salon?
This is the date on which the final Declaration of Independence was issued.
What is July 4, 1776?
James Madison wrote Federalist Paper No. 10 expressing fear of the competing interests he referred to by this term.
What are factions?
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Jonathan Edwards
The invention of this device for reproducing literature facilitated the pamphlet wars that arose around the period of the American Revolution.
What is the printing press?
This time period is characterized by an emphasis on rationality, logic, and empiricism and is also the title of a work by Thomas Paine that resulted in his rejection by religious readers.
What is The Age of Reason?
This English philosopher's ideas about natural rights, the consent of the governed, and the right to life, liberty, and property were extremely influential on the founding documents of the United States of America.
Who is John Locke?
This president of the United States owned hundreds of slaves and actually had children by an enslaved woman named Sally Hemings.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
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John de Crevecoeur
This Loyalist, though he abhorred the inhumanity of slavery, rhapsodized about life in the English colonies in America, until the Revolutionary War drove him from the country and his family.
Who is J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur?
This famous Puritan believed that the eyes of the world would be on the colonies, an idea that also influenced the Framers of the Constitution in the following century.
Who is John Winthrop?
In order for the Southern states to increase their representation in the new United States Congress, this strategy was adopted in order to partially account for the slave population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
A belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically a creator who does not intervene in the affairs of human beings.
What is Deism?
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This fictional piece by Benjamin Franklin is an early example of feminism, written in the voice of a woman hauled into court for bearing illegitimate children.
What is "The Speech of Polly Baker"?
This short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne warns of the excesses of revolutionary mobs.
What is "My Kinsman, Major Molineux?"
When an oppressive government fails to protect its citizens' inalienable rights, the Declaration of Independence argues that ordinary citizens have the right to do this.
What is overthrow the goverment?
This Founding Father was considered a deist, and on his deathbed he refused the attendance of a clergyman. One of his last acts was to take his own pulse.
Who is George Washington?
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