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    John Locke and Isaac Newton were the major intellectual forerunners of the Enlightenment. Print culture was a culture in which books‚ journals‚ newspapers‚ and pamphlets had achieved a status of their own. The Enlightenment flourished in this. The most influential philosophe was Voltaire. He wrote Letters on the English. The book praised the virtues of the English‚ especially their religious liberty‚ and criticized the abuses of French society. Voltaire said Muhammad and Islam represented simply

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    During the Enlightenment‚ many new ideas were created. John Locke‚ Benjamin Franklin‚ and David Hume are thinkers from the Enlightenment. They all supported the creation of government that embraced their Enlightenment ideas. Locke‚ Franklin‚ and Hume are the most important thinkers. In the era of the Enlightenment‚ these thinkers were the ones who had the biggest impact on the world. John Locke focused on government. Locke created the idea of a “social contact”‚ which is important because it’s good

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    Ben Franklin

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    Ben Franklin Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17‚ 1706‚ in Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His father‚ Josiah Franklin‚ a soap and candle maker had 17 children. Benjamin was his very last child. Ben was removed at 10 from the Boston Latin School to work with his father at candle making‚ but dipping wax and cutting wicks didn’t spark with him. Later on‚ Josiah apprenticed Ben at 12 to his brother James at his print shop. Ben loved it‚ despite his brother’s hard treatment. When James

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    differentiate between the upbringing of human labor: Mary Jemison and Olaudah Equiano. Each individual had been transported to separate regions of Colonial America from their origin countries to participate in labor. With discrete past lives‚ each person had acquired a different assimilation into their new culture‚ emphasizing the extents of impact that labor in America had dealt. Without the establishment of Colonial American

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    Benjamin Franklin Ben Franklin was a very important man in U.S. history. He signed each of four major documents of the United States‚ and conducted experiments on electricity. Ben Franklin was born on Milk Street‚ January 17‚ 1706 in Boston‚ Massachusetts. His father owned a candle and soap shop. Everyone referred to his father as a leather apron. Leather aprons were usually carpenters‚ black smiths‚ shoemakers and others who made their living producing household goods to sell. Ben Franklin

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    The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano telling his experience during the slave trade compared to The Amistad shares many similarities as well as differences. As a whole‚ both of these historical stories emotionally and mentally tells the struggle of slavery including how they were treated as well as how big slavery was. In both stories it described how slavery affected African Americans so badly that death might have been better than being treated as nothing by being chained and thrown together‚ taken

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    During the Enlightenment‚ or The Age of Reason‚ there were many thinkers who made a huge difference in the world‚ changed how people thought about traditional authority‚ and helped them embraced the notion that humanity could be improved through rational changes. The Enlightenment was an era of new ideas and ways of thinking that gave rise to the expansion of a literate European society promoting economic improvement and political reform. Out of the many thinkers in this era‚ there are three that

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    The Autobiography and other Writings of Benjamin Franklin: In this autobiography about Benjamin Franklin I learned a lot of new material I did not know before. Mr. Franklin was born in Boston‚ MA. He was born on January 17‚ 1706. Benjamin is the youngest of five generations of youngest sons. He had 11 brothers and sisters. His father made soap and candles for a living. His mother raised the children. Ben went to school and finished in 1716. Though he would have liked to continue‚ his family was

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    Franklin Pierce‚ one of eight children of Benjamin and Anna Kendrick Pierce‚ was born in Hillsborough‚ N. H.‚ on Nov. 23‚ 1804. His father had served in the American Revolution and later became governor of New Hampshire. Pierce was educated at Hillsborough Center‚ Hancock Academy‚ and Bowdoin College‚ from which he graduated in 1824 after advancing from last place to fifth from the top of his class. In 1829‚ he was elected to the state legislature‚ two years after his father won election to the

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    History Essay Do you agree with the Enlightenment thinkers such as Ben Franklin that humans are basically good? The Scientific Revolution had led people looking for laws governing human behavior. The ideas of the Scientific Revolution paved the way for a new period called the Enlightenment‚ also known as the Age of Reason. This period took place in the eighteenth- century. This was the philosophical movement that emphasized the pursuit of knowledge through reason and refused to accept

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