History
The time period before rationalism
What is puritanism?
The first black woman poet published in the United States
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
What is logic or reason?
Phillis Wheatly's core idea to "His Excellency General Washington"
What is a poem about her admiration to George Washington?
The Founding Fathers even used this idea to construct the basis for our country today
What is rationalism?
The writer for the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What are speeches and pamphlets?
The announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain
What is the Declaration of Independence?
An example of a rationalist song
What is "Yankee Doodle?"
The years that rationalism took place
What is 1750-1800s?
The writer for The Crisis
Thomas Paine
The controversial value that helped spark the American Revolution
What is questioning authority?
The removal of all references to supernatural aspects: miracles, angels, and the divinity and resurrection of Jesus
What is the Thomas Jefferson Bible?
A painter during rationalism
Who is John Trumbull?
The start of an historical event in the United States
What is the American Revolution?
One of the speakers in the Virginia Convention
Who is Patrick Henry?
The belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe
What is deism?
The plea to the members of the Continental Congress to keep the interests of women in mind as they prepared to fight for American independence from Great Britain
What are Letters to John Adams?
The contradiction made by Thomas Jefferson when writing the Declaration of Independence
What is slavery?
The name of a major historical document published at the time
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The writer for the Iroquois Constitution
Who is Dekanawidah?
Rationalists believed that humanity's ability to think in an ordered logical manner enabling people to discover both scientific and spiritual truth
What is God's gift?
Two examples of Rationalist Literature written by Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin?
What is The Crisis and The Autobiography?
The belief that truth was available to a select number of people
What is puritanism?