Introduction to The Enlightenment

Today, we took notes about The American Enlightenment, which is a bridge between the Early American/Puritan era and the Romantic Era.

We took notes from the following presentation, then we looked at a sample of writing from this time period, Thomas Paine's Common Sense. Click here to download a "clean" copy of this text. In Common Sense, Paine argues that the colonies would be better off if we were to separate from Great Britain. We broke this document in teams, and we will finish going over Common Sense on Friday. I will post an annotated copy of it on Friday, as well.