Enlightenment in America

The main ideas of the age of reason:
JUSTICE
establishment of the “kingdom of reason”
LIBERTY
QUALITY OF PEOPLE
PROGRESS OF EDUCATION
POLITICAL FREEDOM
ATHEISM
HUMANISM

Benjamin Franklin
(1706 –1790)
was one of the
Founding Fathers of the
United States. was a leading
author, printer, political theorist,
politicianpolitician, postmaster, scientist,
musician, inventor, satirist
civic activist, statesman,
and diplomat.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 –1826)
was an American Founding Fatherwas an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independencewas an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States (1801–1809)
Philip Freneau (1752 –1832)
was an American poetwas an American poet,nationalistwas an American poet,nationalist, polemicist, sea captain
and
newspaper
editor
sometimes
called the
«Poet of the
American
Revolution".
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Thomas Paine (1737 –1809)
was an English-American political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary.
The outstanding writers:

to defuse republican ideas among common people
to expose the tyranny of monarchism
to defend the rights of common people against the church and feudal laws