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Jamestown Founded
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Chapter 1 - Colonial Colleges (Thelin)
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Harvard University
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The Enlightenment
Age of Reason - "Enlightenment thinkers in Britain, in France and throughout Europe questioned traditional authority and embraced the notion that humanity could be improved through rational change. The Enlightenment produced numerous books, essays, inventions, scientific discoveries, laws, wars and revolutions. The American and French Revolutions were directly inspired by Enlightenment ideals. -
Salem Witch Trials
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The College of William and Mary
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King William's School (St John's College)
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Yale Founded
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Benjamin Franklin
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The Great Awakening
More info so PDF in Files "The Colonial Colleges in America_Understand America" From www.history.org - The Great Awakening ifluenced the American Revolution by encouraging the notions of nationalism and individual rights. The religious fervor also led to the establishment of several renowned educational institutions, including Princeton, Rutgers, Brown and Dartmouth universities. -
Corporal Punishment Ends at Harvard
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Moravian College Established
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Princeton Univ (College of New Jersey)
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King's College (Columbia)
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University of Pennsylvania
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Brown University
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American Revolution
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Rutgers Established
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Dartmouth Established
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Declaration of Independence
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Phi Beta Kappa Society Founded
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America's Founding Period
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University of Georgia
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University of North Carolina
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Georgetown
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Industrial Revolution
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Bill of Rights Passed by First Congress
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Second Great Awakening
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West Point Established
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Louisiana Purchase
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Burr-Hamilton Duel
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Fulton's Steamboat
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War of 1812
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Manifest Destiny
The idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent. Link text -
Florida Purchase (Adams-Onis Treaty)
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Darthmouth v. Woodward
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Temperance Movement
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Restoration Movement
The Restoration Movement (RM) formed in the early 1800s as a means to "restore" and unify the Christian church based on biblical principles. It gave rise to a family of Christian churches with membership now numbering approximately 7 million. Link text -
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Abolitionist Movement
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Mercer University Founded
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Wesleyan College - First Female College
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Transcendentalism Movement
"In 1836, transcendentalism took shape, as New England intellectuals pushed for the union between humans and nature through personal experience. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, writer Henry David Thoreau, abolitionist Theodore Parker, and poet William Ellery Channing, Jr." link text -
Horace Mann becomes becomes Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education
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Oberlin College
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Cheyney University Opens for African Americans
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First Passenger Railroad
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University of Notre Dame Founded
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Texas Becomes a State
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First Wave of Feminism
"The first women’s rights convention was held in July 1848 at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Organized by abolitionists Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the gathering pushed for women to have equal rights as men -- including allowing married women to own their own property and keep their own wages. But the most controversial was the right to vote." link text -
University of Iowa Admits Men and Women
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Dred Scott
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Charles Darwin publishes Origin of Species
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Beginning of Civil War
