At the age of seventeen, this individual ran away, eventually ending up in Quaker Philadelphia. There he began publishing the Pennsylvania Gazette in the late 1720s, and in 1732 he started his annual publication Poor Richard: An Almanack, in which he gave readers much practical advice, such as “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
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The ____________, or the Age of Reason, was an intellectual…
The ____________, or the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith.
This lasted from 1642 to 1649 and pitted the king, Charles I…
This lasted from 1642 to 1649 and pitted the king, Charles I, and his Royalist supporters against Oliver Cromwell and his Parliamentary forces.
In Northampton, Massachusetts, which of the following led st…
In Northampton, Massachusetts, which of the following led still another explosion of evangelical fervor, involving using vivid depictions of the terrors of hell, his best-known sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” perfectly exemplifies this terrifying approach?
Who argued that government was a form of contract between th…
Who argued that government was a form of contract between the leaders and the people, and that representative government existed to protect “life, liberty and property?”
What was the name given to he conflict between the British a…
What was the name given to he conflict between the British and American colonist fighting the French and it’s Native America allies over dominance in western Pennsylvania or the Ohio River Valley (Called the Seven Years War in Europe)?
What was it called when a literate Angolan named Jemmy led a…
What was it called when a literate Angolan named Jemmy led a large group of captive Africans in an armed insurrection against White colonists, the militia suppressed the rebellion after a battle in which both enslaved people and militiamen were killed, and the remaining rebels were executed or sold to enslavers in the West Indies?
What was it called when a labor contract that young, impove…
What was it called when a labor contract that young, impoverished, and often illiterate Englishmen and occasionally Englishwomen signed in England, pledging to work for a number of years (usually between five and seven) growing tobacco in the Chesapeake colonies.
The Whigs worked to depose James, and in late 1688 they succ…
The Whigs worked to depose James, and in late 1688 they succeeded, James fled to the court of Louis XIV in France, allowing William III (William of Orange) and his wife Mary II ascended the throne in 1689 which was known as
Who argued that government was a form of contract between th…
Who argued that government was a form of contract between the leaders and the people, and that representative government existed to protect “life, liberty and property?”