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During the Enlightenment, humanity began looking at things differently. Thinkers rejected the old ways just like they did during the Renaissance and wanted to form their own way of thinking
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They call this the Age of Faith, because during this time, many Relgious views were devoloped.
1676- Bacons Rebellion takes place
1686- Govenor sends a series of orders to bring the colonies together as one
1682-1725; Edward Taylor writes Preparatory Meditations
1689- The French and Indian War take place -
1675- King Phillips Wartook, to fight for Plymouth
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1682- Edward Taylor writes Preparatory Mediations
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The Age of Reason is the age where everyone gained responsibilty, and gained independence.
1775- Battles of Lexington and Concord
1787-Shays Rebellian
1789- George Washington was elected president -
Thomas Paine writes "Common Sense"
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1776 The Second Consitutional Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence
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Romanticism started a whole new genre in poetry and writing. It brought out a fantasty side, and more emotional side in writing
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July 4th, The United States Military Academy opens at West Point; Whos cadets were Ulysses Grant, Robert E. Lee, and Edgar Allan Poe
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The central beliefs of transcendentalism were between nature and God, how each person saw God and how humans could be perfect
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In 1854, Walt Whitman wrote the poem "A Boston Ballad"
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In 1855, Fredrick Douglas writes "My Bondage and My Freedom"
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Mark Twain was the author of "Life on the Mississippi"
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In 1913, The 16th amendement is ratified
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Nathaniel Hawthorne is the author of "The Scarlet Letter"
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Edgar Allan Poe is the author of the famous poem "The Raven"
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In 1850, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote "Representative Men"
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1849 Henry David Thoreau writes "Resistence to Civil Government"