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1
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What years did the age of faith take place in.

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1640-1750

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2
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What was the name of the people in the age of faith

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Puritans

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3
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Where did the Age of Faith originate

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England

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What were the age of faiths beliefs?

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Sobriety, work ethnic, simplicity, temperance, divine providence

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5
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What 2 Historical events inspired the AOF

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Salem witch trials and the great awakening

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What types of writing came from the AOF

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Journals and sermons

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What were 2 famous writers of the AOF

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An Bradstreet, Jonathan Edwards

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8
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What was the belief about man in the AOF

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Man is inherently evil

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9
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When did the age of reason take place?

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1750-1800

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10
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What were people called during the age of reason?

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Patriots

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Where did the age of reason beliefs, originate from?

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France

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What did people during the age of reason believe in?

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Natural rights, government should protect those rights

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What two famous historical events inspired the Age of Reason

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US revolutionary war, French revolution

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What were two types of writing that came from the age of reason?

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Articles and propaganda, speeches

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Who are two famous writers during the age of reason

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Thomas Jefferson, George, Washington

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16
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What was the belief about man during the age of reason?

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Man is inherently good

17
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What time? Period did romanticism take place?

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1800 - 1880

18
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What were people called during the romanticism times?

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Fireside poets

19
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Where did romanticism ideas originate from?

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Germany

20
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What did romanticism people believe in?

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Death is glory, young men are good people, go out to nature, city is corruption

21
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What’s 2 famous historical events inspired the romanticism time period.

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Civil War, westward expansion

22
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What were two types of writing that came from the romanticism times

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Poetry, short stories

23
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Who are two famous writers during the romanticism time period

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Whitman, Irving

24
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What were romanticism’s belief about man

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Young man is good

25
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What time period did transcendentalism take place?

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1840-1860

26
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What were people called during the transcendentalism time?

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Transcendentalists

27
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Where did transcendentalism beliefs, originate from?

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United States

28
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What were transcendentalism’s beliefs?

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Do as much as you can before you die, fill life in, civil disobedience

29
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What two famous historical events inspired transcendentalism time period

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Mexican, American war, slavery

30
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What two types of writing came during the transcendentalism time period

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Poems, articles

31
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Who are two famous writers in the transcendentalism time

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Thorea , Emerson

32
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What were transcendentalist beliefs about man?

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Man is perfectible