Author's and Works
Autobiography
Benjamin Franklin
First Widely applauded American Poet
Phillis Wheatley
"Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead"
Speaker in "Speech to the Virginia Convention"
Patrick Henry
The Crisis
Thomas Paine
Third President of the United States
Thomas Jefferson
"We hold these truths to be self-evident..."
Thomas Jefferson - Declaration of Independence
He improved the city of Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin
The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
French Diplomat
Crevecoeur
Twas mercy brought me from my pagan land"
Phillis Wheatley - "Upon Being Brought"
Wrtiers of the American Age of Reason believed that society could survive and thrive without what two things?
Authority and past traditions
"To His Excellency, General Washington"
Phillis Wheatley
Governor of Virginia
Patrick Henry
"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind if Reason."
Thomas Paine - The Age of Reason
What quality dos the following quote encourage? "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
Industry
Letters from an American Farmer
Crevecoeur
Involved in the French Revolution
Thomas Paine
"These are the times that try men's souls."
Thomas Paine - The Crisis
Name three subjects the writers of the Age of Reason requently addressed
Science, government, ethics