A young Virginian lawyer that drafts a document declaring the colonies are "free and independent states"
The Age of Reason tells us that by using reason, humans could manage themselves without depending on what?
One of the results of the American Revolution
Colonists wrote these during the Revolutionary Period
England withdrew the stamp tax of 1765 because of American demonstration and then imposed this act for fear of looking weak
The years of the Revloutionary Period are from:
The War of Words began in this year
The Boston Massacre resulted in this many deaths
This number of crates of tea end up in the harbor during the Boston Tea Party
What was the year of the Boston Tea Party
The first American novel written
The type of discourse that uses reason and emotional appeals to convince another person to think or act in a certain way
The name of the purchase that resulted in the addition of 800,000 acres
The person responsible for the purchase of what would become 13 states
One of the parts to the Declaration of Independence
Speech to the Virginia Convention
The Crisis #1
The Declaration of Independence
Letters to John Adams
Strive Towards Freedom
In "Speech to the Virginian Convention," the speaker assumes there will be this many people fighting for the holy cause of freedom
In the "Declaration" who is the "He"?
This person is considered the greatest orator of the period
This person died on the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
The emphasis in Classicism was on Human ______________________
Thomas Jefferson
past traditions, the bible, kings or queens, God
Cities grow, richer cultural life, Washington elected president
pamphlets, speeches, songs, poems
Townshend Act
1730-1800
1763
5
342
1773
The Power of Sympathy
persuasive
Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson
preamble, list of complaints, declaration or foreward
Patrick Henry
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Abigail Adams
Martin Luther King Jr
3 million
The king of Britain
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson
Limitations