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Emphasized reason, harmony, and restraint In both oral and written communication Also some embraced Deism The Founding Fathers: Neoclassicists 1750-1820.

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2 Emphasized reason, harmony, and restraint In both oral and written communication Also some embraced Deism The Founding Fathers: Neoclassicists 1750-1820

3 New scientific discoveries and philosophical thinking challenge the role of faith and establishes and either-or mentality between men of “reason” and men of “faith”

4  Dominant philosophy among the educated classes in Europe and America  Believed human reason capable of solving social and political problems  Supreme Being who operates only through natural laws  No belief in the supernatural  Did not accept Jesus as the Son of God

5 Puritans Deists

6 PuritansFounding Fathers Christian Plain Puritan Style Personal, devotional literature Deist Neoclassic Style Political literature Believed in community Intellectual thinkers Shaped America

7  Neoclassicists believed that humans are natural creatures of God and have rights that cannot be violated or usurped.  Based on John Locke’s philosophical outlook, Neoclassicism views humans as good and rational, deserving the rights of worship, a voice in government, and property ownership

8  Individual or natural rights have to be reconciled with societal unity.  People consent to protect each other from harm and provide tools and necessities that are not naturally occurring.  It requires that people give up personal, individual freedoms in order to establish societal rules.

9  4th and 5th generation Americans happily living as English subjects until…  King George II imposes regulations that threaten the liberties of colonists  The mind of the nation is on politics and it is reflected in the literature produced  4th and 5th generation Americans happily living as English subjects until…  King George II imposes regulations that threaten the liberties of colonists  The mind of the nation is on politics and it is reflected in the literature produced

10  Unlike the personal writing of the Puritans, the Revolutionary Period produced public political writing  Nearly 30 newspapers and almanacs were popular in all the colonies  Much that is known about private life in the period comes from letters

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