Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758)

a notable pulpit orator

a religious revival in which a great number of conversions were made; Edwards received 300 new members into his church. Some of the converted were so obsessed by his fiery descriptions of eternal damnation that they contemplated suicide.

In 1740 the British evangelist George Whitefield visited Edwards. Together, the two men started a revival movement that became known as the Great Awakening and developed into a religious frenzy engulfing all New England.

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

Stockbridge, in Massachusetts,

pastor of the village church and missionary to the Housatonic people

important theological works:

A Careful and Strict Enquiry into ... Notions of ... Freedom of Will ... (1754)

the presidency of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University)

1758, he died as the result of an inoculation against smallpox

A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746), Dissertation Concerning the End for Which God Created the World (1754),

The Great Christian Doctrine of Original Sin Defended (1758).

Benjamin Franklin

1706-1790

Poor Richard's Almanac (1732-1757)

Franklin negotiated French support for the colonists, signed the Treaty of Paris (1783),

helped draft the Constitution (1787-1789).

His scientific and practical innovations include

the lightning rod, bifocal spectacles, and a stove

His literary reputation rests on his unfinished Autobiography, which is considered by many the epitome of his life and character.

Jefferson, Thomas

Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826), third president of the United States (1801-1809) and author of the Declaration of Independence.

He was a philosopher, educator, naturalist, politician, scientist, architect, inventor, pioneer in scientific farming, musician, and writer.

Mountaintop estate, Monticello, near what is now Charlottesville, Virginia. He designed the mansion himself.

the Declaration of Independence

1787 the Constitution of the United States

the Bill of Rights.

1789 secretary of state

vice president

President of the United States
the Louisiana Purchase (1803)

the University of Virginia

Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)

Anglo-American political philosopher

the American Revolution (1775-1783) and the French Revolution (1789-1799).

Paine immigrated to Philadelphia in 1774

Common Sense, 1776

every consideration of common sense called for the colonies to become independent and establish a republican government of their own

sold more than 500,000 copies

1776 and 1783 The American Crisis

1791 and 1792 he published Rights of Man

The Age of Reason was published 1795

Hamilton, Alexander

Hamilton, Alexander (1757-1804), American statesman, best known for his fiscal policies after the American Revolution (1775-1783), his authorship of many of The Federalist papers (1788), and his consistent advocacy of a strong central government.

born on the West Indian island of Nevis

King's College (now Columbia University)

In 1777 George Washington made Hamilton his aide-de-camp and personal secretary.

John Jay and James Madison

The Federalist. Hamilton is believed to have written at least 51 of the 85 essays

In 1789 President George Washington appointed Hamilton first secretary of the treasury.

the public credit that provided for the funding of national and foreign debts as well as federal assumption of the states' revolutionary debts

the establishment of a national bank

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