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1.) The puritans believed that the bible was the literal word of God.
2.) This perspective greatly influenced the puritans writings and created the foundation of their culture.

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The puritans were made up of multiple groups of protestants who sought to purify the church of England. They saw the new testament as a personal inner experience and thought no government or outside influence should intermediate between them and their religion.

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The first group of puritans landed in america in 1620 and were fundamental to the development of american culture. They came to America in search of religious freedom as well as to seek their fortune.

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The Salem Witch Trials showed how easily people can turn on eachother and how easily hysteria can spread. It’s not the fact that there were witches but the aggression people had and paranoia.

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-This is just the time period where europeans were arriving and exploring this new land.
-It was kind of hectic as people were trying to figure out where everything was in the new land. People would often get lost.
-As they explored they found many new things like animals and plants that they had never seen before.

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The Age of Reason: Tinkers and Experimenters 

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The Age of Reason: Tinkers and Experimenters 

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-The conflict of science vs faith began, though many chose to believe in both.

-Americans in the beginning of the country's life, had to work hard to get anything which shifted them from the puritan point of view to the rationalist point of view.

-Isaac Newton who was one of those rationalists, compared God to a clockmaker who created the perfect mechanism for the universe to work on its own much like a clock.

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-Started in Boston Harbor during a trade
- Rapidly sreads and very fatal
- native people in Morth America had no immunity to the virus
Puritan minister Cotton Mather helped find a vaccine to stop the spread
- His workers didn't want to help, was borrowed from Muslims so they didn't like that
- Got people to help and made a vaccine that worked

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-Deists found God through the form of the natural world. However, they thought God made it possible for all people at all times to discover natural laws.
-Deists believed that everyone was good because of their own gift and has the use of reason. They could use their gift to lead to good for others.

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-Most pieces of literature, which was either practical or political, during this time were published in pamphlets
-Benjamin Franklin wrote his autobiography based on the Puritan impulse of self-examination

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-When the Europeans first arrived to what is now North America, many groups of people were already living here.
-These people were already organized into societies and communities, and their traditions still remain in our country.