English 10
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- Ben Franklin was an:
- Inventor, Painter, Philosopher, First Postmaster General, Assisted in creating the "Declaration of Independence" and Constitution, Helped build Philadelphia, First American Millionaire
- Puritans (up to 1760) focused on:
- religious writings, superstitions, traditional beliefs, plain style of writing
- Aphorisms
- A brief statement- usually onesentence - that expresses some truth about life in terse,easily remembered form
- Concerned with life -
- on Earth
- The Age of Reason - reason -
- a rational motive for a belief of action
- Americans Focused on:
- Science, Ethics, Government
- Reason over emotion -
- prevailed
- 1760 -
- 1800
- Superstition and
- Ignorance ended
- After the American Revolutions writing was based on:
- Themselves/Individual Freedom and Societies without British Authority Americans did not rely on past traditions
- Symbols of America
- Flags, Bald Eagle, Uncle Sam