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The Church of England is considered the original church of the Anglican Communion, which represents over 85 million people in more than The bill outlined specific constitutional and civil rights and ultimately gave Parliament power over the monarchy.
Enlightenment thinkers in The Inquisition was a powerful office set up within the Catholic Church to root out and punish heresy throughout Europe and the Americas. Beginning in the 12th century and continuing for hundreds of years, the Inquisition is infamous for the severity of its tortures and its Islam has existed in North America for hundreds of years, ever since enslaved people captured in Africa brought their religion over.
In the s, an English translation of the Quran or Koran actually became a bestseller among Protestants in England and its American colonies. The Devil, also referred to as Satan, is best known as the personification of evil and the nemesis of good people everywhere. His image and story have evolved over the years, and the Devil has been called many different names in various cultures: Beelzebub, Lucifer, Satan and The story of North American exploration spans an entire millennium and involves a wide array of European powers and uniquely American characters.
Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. First Great Awakening In the s, a European philosophical movement known as the Enlightenment , or the Age of Reason, was making its way across the Atlantic Ocean to the American colonies. Recommended for you. Alfred the Great. Great Society. Great Migration. The Great Sphinx. Church of England The Church of England, or Anglican Church, is the primary state church in England, where the concepts of church and state are linked.
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The Devil The Devil, also referred to as Satan, is best known as the personification of evil and the nemesis of good people everywhere. Exploration of North America The story of North American exploration spans an entire millennium and involves a wide array of European powers and uniquely American characters. The Freemasons were a fraternal society that advocated Enlightenment principles of inquiry and tolerance.
Freemasonry originated in London coffeehouses in the early eighteenth century, and Masonic lodges local units soon spread throughout Europe and the British colonies. In he was apprenticed to his brother to work in a print shop, where he learned how to be a good writer by copying the style he found in the Spectator , which his brother printed.
At the age of seventeen, the independent-minded Franklin ran away, eventually ending up in Quaker Philadelphia. Franklin subscribed to deism , an Enlightenment-era belief in a God who created, but has no continuing involvement in, the world and the events within it.
In , he established a reading library that became the Library Company of Philadelphia. In , he founded the American Philosophical Society to encourage the spirit of inquiry. In , he provided the foundation for the University of Pennsylvania, and in , he helped found Pennsylvania Hospital. His career as a printer made Franklin wealthy and well-respected. When he retired in , he devoted himself to politics and scientific experiments.
His most famous work, on electricity, exemplified Enlightenment principles. Franklin observed that lightning strikes tended to hit metal objects and reasoned that he could therefore direct lightning through the placement of metal objects during an electrical storm. He published his findings in , in Experiments and Observations on Electricity. This story laid the foundation for the American Dream of upward social mobility.
His diplomatic, political, scientific, and business achievements had great effects in many countries. The reach of Enlightenment thought was both broad and deep. In the s, it even prompted the founding of a new colony. George II, understanding the strategic advantage of a British colony standing as a buffer between South Carolina and Spanish Florida, granted the charter to Oglethorpe and twenty like-minded proprietors in Oglethorpe led the settlement of the colony, which was called Georgia in honor of the king.
In , he and immigrants arrived on the ship Anne. Over the next decade, Parliament funded the migration of twenty-five hundred settlers, making Georgia the only government-funded colonial project. However, colonists who relocated from other colonies, especially South Carolina, disregarded these prohibitions.
The eighteenth century saw a host of social, religious, and intellectual changes across the British Empire. While the Great Awakening emphasized vigorously emotional religiosity, the Enlightenment promoted the power of reason and scientific observation. Both movements had lasting impacts on the colonies.
The beliefs of the New Lights of the First Great Awakening competed with the religions of the first colonists, and the religious fervor in Great Britain and her North American colonies bound the eighteenth-century British Atlantic together in a shared, common experience. The British colonist Benjamin Franklin gained fame on both sides of the Atlantic as a printer, publisher, and scientist.
In this portrait by Robert Feke, a forty-year-old Franklin wears a stylish British wig, as befitted a proud and loyal member of the British Empire.
Several ideas dominated Enlightenment thought, including rationalism, empiricism, progressivism, and cosmopolitanism. Rationalism is the idea that humans are capable of using their faculty of reason to gain knowledge. This was a sharp turn away from the prevailing idea that people needed to rely on scripture or church authorities for knowledge.
Empiricism promotes the idea that knowledge comes from experience and observation of the world. Progressivism is the belief that through their powers of reason and observation, humans could make unlimited, linear progress over time; this belief was especially important as a response to the carnage and upheaval of the English Civil Wars in the seventeenth century. In all, Enlightenment thinkers endeavored to be ruled by reason, not prejudice.
The Freemasons were a fraternal society that advocated Enlightenment principles of inquiry and tolerance. Freemasonry originated in London coffeehouses in the early eighteenth century, and Masonic lodges local units soon spread throughout Europe and the British colonies. In he was apprenticed to his brother to work in a print shop, where he learned how to be a good writer by copying the style he found in the Spectator , which his brother printed.
At the age of seventeen, the independent-minded Franklin ran away, eventually ending up in Quaker Philadelphia. Franklin subscribed to deism , an Enlightenment-era belief in a God who created, but has no continuing involvement in, the world and the events within it. In , he established a reading library that became the Library Company of Philadelphia. In , he founded the American Philosophical Society to encourage the spirit of inquiry.
In , he provided the foundation for the University of Pennsylvania, and in , he helped found Pennsylvania Hospital. His career as a printer made Franklin wealthy and well-respected.
When he retired in , he devoted himself to politics and scientific experiments. His most famous work, on electricity, exemplified Enlightenment principles. Franklin observed that lightning strikes tended to hit metal objects and reasoned that he could therefore direct lightning through the placement of metal objects during an electrical storm.
He published his findings in , in Experiments and Observations on Electricity. This story laid the foundation for the American Dream of upward social mobility.
The reach of Enlightenment thought was both broad and deep. In the s, it even prompted the founding of a new colony. George II, understanding the strategic advantage of a British colony standing as a buffer between South Carolina and Spanish Florida, granted the charter to Oglethorpe and twenty like-minded proprietors in Oglethorpe led the settlement of the colony, which was called Georgia in honor of the king. In , he and immigrants arrived on the ship Anne.
Over the next decade, Parliament funded the migration of twenty-five hundred settlers, making Georgia the only government-funded colonial project. However, colonists who relocated from other colonies, especially South Carolina, disregarded these prohibitions. The eighteenth century saw a host of social, religious, and intellectual changes across the British Empire.
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