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This Revolutionary period writer undertook patriotic poetry by writing to George
Washington.
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Answer:Phillis Wheatley
Even though his brother was jailed and forbidden to "print or publish," this author
later became printer and publisher.
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Answer:Benjamin Franklin
The title page of the work of this author challenged and reversed some prejudices
that existed during the Age of Reason.
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Answer:Phillis Wheatley
Which of Thomas Paine’s work was a discourse intended to be a religious revolution
to subject major religions to scientific scrutiny and criticism?
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Phillis Wheatley adopts an ostensibly public voice in her poetry.
The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in
complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the
importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it. Our northern
brethren also, I believe, felt a little tender under those censures; for though their people
had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them
to others. This statement suggests that
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The initial draft of the Declaration of Independence included
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Authored "Notes on the State of Virginia"
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Authored "Notes on the State of Virginia"
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This author grew up in a fixed and prejudged position in then society, but with
a stroke of a pen, she became a poet and gained prominence and upward
social mobility.
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Was characterized by Theodore Roosevelt as a "filthy little atheist."
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Answer:Thomas Paine
Replaced Locke's "life, liberty, and property" with "life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness."
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Answer:Thomas Jefferson
Developed ambition to read and write when he apprenticed in his older brother’s
printing shop.
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Answer:Benjamin Franklin
Taxation that exacted tax on goods the colonists imported, such as paper, paints,
glass, and tea shipped from England.
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The quest for emancipation is a main idea featured in Thomas Jefferson’s "Notes on
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Wrote an elegy on the death of Reverend George Whitefield.
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Answer:Phillis Wheatley
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Rene Descartes propounded the idea of God as “First Cause.”
The 13 virtues of self-improvement course that Benjamin Franklin expounded
included frugality.
Isaac Newton suggested that the physical world is a mechanism that operates
according to a system of natural laws that can be rationally understood through the
application of scientific methods.
During the Age of Reason, rationalists perceived God deistically as First Cause, as
the creator of the Universe, and as one who works through unchangeable laws of
nature.
As coeditor of the Pennsylvania Magazine, he injected himself into American politics.
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The clause too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in
complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the
importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it. Our northern
brethren also, I believe, felt a little tender under those censures; for though their people
had very few slaves themselves, yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them
to others.
This excerpt is from
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First African-American woman to publish a book of poetry.
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Known as the greatest propogandist of the American Revolution.
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Answer:Thomas Paine
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Main ideas/themes in "Notes on the State of Virginia" include:
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Embarked on diplomatic mission to England where he received Phillis Wheatley.
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Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa” addresses freedom from slavery,
but does not explore themes of spiritual freedom.
During the Age of Reason, rationalists believed through reason that man could learn
the laws of nature and place himself in harmony with the universe.
This author, in keeping with the seriousness of the themes of the “Declaration,” used
a dignified, formal language belonging to the written rather than the commonly
spoken language of the people.
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Rationalists did not view human beings as free agents whose minds work as they
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A popular quotation from this work by Thomas Paine that almost
everybody memorized was “t the times that try men’s souls.”
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Wheatley’s poetry was influenced by Puritan beliefs and included Neo-classical
themes.
Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography is a deeply personal guide to life for his son and
does not address his involvement in the French and Indian War or his diplomatic
mission to England.
Became a printer and publisher before leaving home at 17 to go to Philadelphia to
establish himself.
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Thomas Jefferson authored Autobiography.
One of the reasoning of the "Declaration of Independence" is "self-evident" natural
and inalienable rights.
This author’s work(s) included prefatory notes by respectable people in Boston, such
as His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Governor, 1771-1774.
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Deism along with an intellectual rebellion against the Puritan religious orientation
from the previous age are characteristics of the Age of Reason.
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A major theme of Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography is
way to wealth.
Thomas Paine's Age of Reason was published before American
Revolution.
Commonly regarded as the greatest propagandist of the American Revolution.
Thomas Paine
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