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The Tower of Babel story in Genesis 11:1–9 is an origin myth that explains why people all around the world speak various languages.

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104 English men and boys came in North America in 1607 to establish a colony. They chose Jamestown, Virginia, on May 13 as the site of their settlement, which was named after their King, James I. The settlement became North America's first permanent English settlement.

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Some interesting facts I learned about Native Americans are Native Americans lived in america for 20,000 years before they god their land stolen from them. Another fact is Native Americans invented many things such as syringes, sunscreen and much more.

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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies

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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies

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1507: Early Settlement of the first American colonies - Jamestown

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1507: Early Settlement of the first American colonies - Jamestown

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104 English men and boys came in North America in 1607 to establish a colony. They chose Jamestown, Virginia, on May 13 as the site of their settlement, which was named after their King, James I. The settlement became North America's first permanent English settlement.

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The Salem witch trials were a series of investigations and persecutions that resulted in the hanging of 19 convicted "witches" and the imprisonment of many other suspects in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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1741: Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" 

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1741: Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" 

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Jonathan Edwards, an American theologian, wrote a sermon that he preached to his own church in Northampton, Massachusetts, and again in Enfield, Connecticut, on July 8, 1741. The First Great Awakening was sparked by the preaching of this sermon.

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Rationalism

"The Age of Reason"

"The Enlightenment"

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1607 Early Settlement—Jamestown

1775-1783 Revolutionary War

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1. Mostly comprised of philosophers, scientists, writing speeches and pamphlets

2. Human beings can arrive at truth (God's rules) by using deductive reasoning, rather than relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith, or intuition

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Benjamin Franklin
—Autobiography

Patrick Henry
—"Speech to the Virginia Convention"

Thomas Paine
—"The Crisis"

Phyllis Wheatley
—poetry

The Constitution

The Bill of Rights

The Declaration of Independence

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1 Invisible ink was used to communicate top-secret messages.

2. There was a plan to murder George Washington.

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The Age of Enlightenment was a cultural movement in Europe throughout the eighteenth century. It was most popular in France, where philosophers such as Voltaire and Denis Diderot were among its leaders.

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Transcendentalism

"The American Renaissance"

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1840-1860
Transcendentalism

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1. Everything in the world, including human beings, is a reflection of the Divine Soul.

2. People can use their intuition to behold God's spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls.

3. Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and link conformity to tradition.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
—Nature
—"Self-Reliance"

Henry David Thoreau
—Walden
—Life in the Woods

Louisa May Alcott
—Little Women

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Transcendentalists believed in the benevolence of people and nature. They felt that humans had been tainted by society and institutions.

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A modern day stand I decided to research is Black Lives Matter marches. These marches have been going on for years now and are based around justice for black people all around America and to end to systematic racism. THe lasted Black Lives Matter march was a Nation wide march that was fueled by the murder of George Floyd a man who was murdered by the police.

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Romanticism

Industrialization

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1800-1860

The War of 1812
1812-1815

California Gold Rush
1848-1859

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1. Valued feeling, intuition, idealism, and inductive reasoning.

2. Placed faith in inner experience and the power of the imagination.

3. Shunned the artificiality of civilization and sought unspoiled nature as a path to spirituality.

4. Championed individual freedom and the worth of the individual

5. Saw poetry as the highest expression of the imagination

6. Dark Romantics: used dark and supernatural themes/settings (Gothic style)

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Washington Irving
—"Rip van Winkle"

Emily Dickinson
—poetry

Walt Whitman
—Leaves of Grass

Edgar Allan Poe
—"The Raven"

Nathaniel Hawthorne
—The Scarlet Letter

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Time length - 1876-1917
It was the first time American writers were seen as equals to european writers.

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Arthur Miller was motivated to compose a play that reflected the widespread cultural and political panic brought on by the American government's attempts to stifle Communism and radical leftist activity.

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For most of his life, Frost misrepresented his age. He actually was born in 1874, but he falsely claimed to have been born in 1875. In England, Mr. Frost experienced his first triumph. American publishers have failed for the past twenty years. Robert Frost was born in San Francisco.