"Age of Reason"
This period began an intellectual and philosophical movement in the year 1715.
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?
A body of fundamental principles or established precedents where there is only one religious reference in Article VII.
What is the Constitution?
An American polymath who was an active, scientist, inventor, diplomat and wrote the first part of his autobiography directed to his son.
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
Thomas Paine
This non-philosophe opposed the views of the author of The Social Contract.
Who is Thomas Hobbes
A place where people of similar classes, interests and outlooks came together to discuss literature, politics, philosophy, or current events.
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The date the final Declaration of Independence was issued
What is July 4th 1776?
James Madison wrote Federalist Paper No. 10 expressing fear towards the competing interests over the United States Government. He wanted to demonstrate that the proposed government should not be dominated by smaller groups.
What are factions?
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Jonathan Edwards
During this period, they valued politics, natural rights, science/reason, rationality, and empiricism. Patriots were also considered the central figures during this time.
What is the Age of Reason?
Jean Jacque Rousseau's created a reform that emphasized the importance of expression to produce a well-balanced, freethinking child. He believed that if children were allowed to develop naturally without constraints imposed on them.
What is Naturalistic education reform?
John Locke's ideas of natural rights, consent of the governed, and the right to eliminate any type of tyrannical government were reflected in the Declaration of Independence as well as
What is The Social Contract?
One of the presidents of the United States who owned hundreds of slaves and actually had children by an enslaved woman named Sally Hemmings.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
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John de Crevecoeur
Who had a strong feeling of moving away from organized religion and pushed for the idea of leaving the old ways of the European culture and religious beliefs?
Who is John de Crevecoeur?
These two famous men requested some type of freedom or liberty in their writings. Both men wrote about America as a place where the movement toward freedom would be watched by the rest of the world, and where failure to achieve it would be costly.
Who were Thomas Paine and John Winthrop?
The prohibition of the slave trade was discussed but was not removed in the Constitution. Congress was formally prohibited from abolishing the slave trade for at least twenty years. They created a compromise in order to continue to legally have slaves.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
A belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe. Many founding fathers were thought to be this due to their opinion of removing or separating religion from the creation of new laws and ideas.
What is Deism?
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The Enlightenment was a time of progress not only in knowledge but in gender roles. Benjamin Franklin wrote a fictional story that showed a different viewpoint towards women and the legal system. It was a protest against the unfairness of the early judicial system.
What is the "Speech of Polly Baker"
This short story conveys the idea of individual freedom and emotion and values the natural over manmade which are major components of the start of the American Revolution.
What is Hawthorne's story, My Kinsman, Major Molineux?
When there was an oppressive government that failed to protect alienable rights, the Declaration of Independence argued that ordinary citizens had the right to
What is overthrow the goverment?
These four main founding fathers were considered to have the liberal religious stand of Deism.
Who are Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison?
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