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An English poet whose Lyrical Ballads (1798), written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the English Romantic movement. His contribution to it was threefold. First, he formulated in his poems and his essays a new attitude toward nature. Second, he probed deeply into his own sensibility as he traced, in his finest poem, The Prelude, the "growth of a poet's mind." The Prelude was in fact the first long autobiographical poem. Third, he placed poetry at the center of human experience; in impassioned rhetoric he pronounced poetry to be nothing less than "the first and last of all knowledge—it is as immortal as the heart of man," and he then went on to create some of the greatest English poetry of his century
William Wordsworth
Remembered as the Supreme Court justice with the record for shortest tenure. His historical significance does not stem from his time on the Court, but his involvement in the revolutionary cause. he headed the resistance to the 1765 Stamp Act. Later, he hosted and led meetings of revolutionaries in his offices. Maryland chose Johnson as one of its delegates at the First Constitutional Convention. Here he nominated his close friend, George Washington, to be commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. He was elected the first governor of Maryland in 1777.
Thomas Johnson
The first major military campaign of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in an American victory and outpouring of militia support for the anti-British cause.
Battle of Concord
an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author. He was the eighth president of Yale College.
Timothy Dwight
The first large mass emigration occurred between 1815 and 1848. Around 600,000 of them emigrated during this period, 90 percent of them to the US. Rising population numbers and the beginnings of industrialization led to pauperism—the impoverishment of large parts of the population—causing hunger and homelessness.
German immigrants
an American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and early American newspaper editor sometimes called the "Poet of the American Revolution". Through his Philadelphia newspaper, the National Gazette, he was a strong critic of George Washington and a proponent of Jeffersonian policies.
Phillip Freneau
American politician who served as the first governor of Michigan from 1835 to 1840.[1][2] Coming to political prominence at an early age, he was appointed his territory's acting territorial secretary by Andrew Jackson at age 19, becoming the acting territorial governor soon thereafter in 1834 at age 22. As territorial governor, he was instrumental in guiding Michigan to statehood, which was secured in 1837. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected as Michigan's first state governor in 1835, where he served until 1840. Elected at 23 and taking office at 24, he was and remains the youngest state governor in American history.
Stevens Thomason Mason
It was a turning point in the Revolutionary War. The American defeat of the superior British army lifted patriot morale, furthered the hope for independence, and helped to secure the foreign support needed to win the war.
Battle of Saratoga
On February 8, 1693, King William III and Queen Mary II of England signed the charter for a "perpetual College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and other good Arts and Sciences" to be established in the Virginia Colony
College of William and Mary
Perhaps the group most closely associated with this was a short-lived movement of republican free thought founded on May Day 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt and a former Jesuit. The members of this secret society called themselves "Perfectibilists." Their founder's aim was to replace Christianity with a religion of reason, as later did the revolutionaries of France and the 19th-century positivist philosopher Auguste Comte.
Society of Illuminate
He was not only the most well known physician in 18th-century America, he was also a patriot, philosopher, author, lecturer, fervent evangelist, politician, and dedicated social reformer. Unquestionably brilliant, he graduated from what later became Princeton University at age 14. He translated Hippocrates' Aphorisms from the Greek at age 17. He wrote the first textbook of chemistry to be published in America. His principles or theories and his championship of extreme purging and bleeding ("depletion therapy") have engendered 200 years of controversy and debate that continue today.
Benjamin Rush
He worked tirelessly for South Carolina. He was the first governor to advocate free schools. He supported legislative reapportionment to provide better representation to the upcountry districts and advocated for universal white male suffrage. He proposed that senators should serve without compensation so as to ensure that only wealthy individuals would serve. American Founding Father, political leader, and diplomat whose proposals for a new government—called the Pinckney plan—were largely incorporated into the federal Constitution drawn up in 1787.
Charles Pinckney
It was the worst American defeat in the field and left the British in temporary control of the southern colonies. While enhancing the reputation of Cornwallis, the battle ruined the career of Gates, who was replaced. The victory opened the way to a subsequent British invasion of North Carolina.
Battle of Camden
He was an American Presbyterian minister and the second President of Queen's College (now Rutgers University), serving in a pro tempore capacity from 1791 to 1795. He was also the first Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives
William Linn
The peak of their emigration resulted from the Great Famine of 1845-1852. It has been estimated that nearly two million people - about a quarter of the population - emigrated to the United States in a ten year period at that time.
Irish Immigrants
the first major American novelist. He wrote the series of novels of frontier adventure known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring the wilderness scout called Natty Bumppo, or Hawkeye. The series consists of The Pioneers (1823), The Last of the Mohicans (1826), The Prairie (1827), The Pathfinder (1840), and The Deerslayer (1841).
James Finimore Cooper
An American public official who signed the Declaration of Independence (1776) and helped negotiate a settlement with the Iroquois (1784). He became a member of the Connecticut council (1771-86) and a delegate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. At the beginning of the Revolution, He signed the Declaration of Independence, then returned home to raise a state militia, which he commanded in defense of New York City (August 1776). After the war he helped negotiate the Second Treaty of Fort Stanwix, which redrew the western boundaries of the Six (Iroquois) Nations. He went on to serve as Connecticut's lieutenant governor and governor (1796-97), as well as a member of the Connecticut convention that ratified the new federal Constitution.
Oliver Wolcott
(April 19, 1775) - marked the beginning of the American Revolution. Acting on orders from London to suppress the rebellious colonists, General Thomas Gage, recently appointed royal governor of Massachusetts, ordered his troops to seize the colonists' military stores at Concord. the British force of 700 men was met on (at this place) by 77 local minutemen and others who had been forewarned of the raid by the colonists' efficient lines of communication, including the ride of Paul Revere. It established guerrilla warfare as the colonists' best defense strategy against the British.
Battle of Lexington
Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, it is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.
Princeton College
a group of Federalist political leaders. They opposed the War of 1812, leading them to participate in the secessionist Hartford Convention.
Junto Essex
After Burr died in 1836, his diary passed into the hands of this man, a former law clerk of his who had become a friend and, later, the executor of his estate. He was also an editor and a journalist who wrote for newspapers under the tantalizing nom de plume "A Spy in Washington." He published a two-volume memoir of Burr in the year of his friend's death. Two years later, in 1838, he edited the journal and had it published in a two-volume edition titled The Private Journal of Aaron Burr During His Residence of Four Years in Europe. It seems safe to say that Burr never imagined that his diary would be available to the public.
Mathew Davis
He was an American political leader who promulgated the idea of the Erie Canal, which connects the Hudson River to the Great Lakes. He was the nephew of Governor George Clinton of New York. A Republican (Jeffersonian) attorney, he served as state senator (1798-1802, 1806-11), U.S. senator (1802-03), mayor of New York City (1803-15 except for two annual terms), and lieutenant governor (1811-13).
Dewitt Clinton
During the Whiskey Rebellion his military services were again called upon. For three months, he led 600 militia against rebelling farmers in western Pennsylvania. In 1799, he was promoted to brigadier general.
Francis Gurney
First College in American colonies founded. Reverend Henry Dunster is appointed first president. 1775: Continental soldiers are quartered in its buildings. 1776: Eight alumni signed the Declaration of Independence. John Adams, future U.S. president, graduates. Before 1773, its graduates were arranged in a hierarchy not of merit but "according to the dignity of birth, or to the rank of [their] parents." By this rather undemocratic standard, Adams graduated 14th in a class of 24.
Harvard College
a Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders.[2] Though there are other Reformed churches that are structurally similar, the word is applied to churches that trace their roots to the Church of Scotland or to English Dissenter groups that formed during the English Civil War
Presbyterianism