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They valued a place were they can study the word of God in peace. They valued that they had such a great and wonderful place to live where they can express their freedoms. This helped shape the American Dream because it is the very definition of it. A place where you can do whatever and say whatever you want without being tied down to any rules against them.

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In the American context, thinkers such as Thomas Paine, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin invented and adopted revolutionary ideas about scientific rationality, religious toleration and experimental political organization—ideas that would have far-reaching effects on the development of the fledgling nation.

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The group of pilgrims were oppressed. Current events such as a meteor soaring through the sky had the pilgrims feeling paranoid as well. Fearing God would punish them.