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• Continental Congress [r]: An assembly of representatives of the 13 colonies participating in the American Revolution. ^[e]
• American Revolution [r]: (1763-1789) war that resulted in the formation of the U.S., in which 13 North American colonies overthrew British rule. ^[e]

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• Common Sense (Thomas Paine) [r]: A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine during the American Revolution, originally published on January 10, 1776 in Philadelphia. ^[e]
• Declaration of Arbroath [r]: Letter sent, by Scottish nobles, to Pope John XXII April 6, 1320 asserting Scotland's right to independence from England. ^[e]
• Magna Carta [r]: A 13th century charter that forms part of the British constitution and which has been classified as a document of global significance. ^[e]
• Enlightenment [r]: In religion, the point at which an aspirant breaks through the barrier of temporal existence and has a direct experience of God. In history, the enlightenment was a philosophical movement of the 18th century that advocated the use of reason as the basis for belief. ^[e]
• Religion in the United States of America [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Christian Right [r]: Add brief definition or description
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• Thomas Jefferson [r]: (1743-1826) Third U.S. President (from 1801 to 1809), first U.S. Secretary of State (from 1789 to 1793), author of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and founder of the University of Virginia. ^[e]

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• Articles of Confederation [r]: Unratified governmental contract from the Second Continental Congress (1977) that was replaced in 1789 by the newly ratified U.S. Constitution. ^[e]
• Benjamin Franklin [r]: 1706-1790, American statesman and scientist, based in Philadelphia. ^[e]
• Benjamin Rush [r]: (1745 - 1813) American physician, educator, chemist, writer, and Founding Father who is known as the "Father of American Psychiatry." ^[e]
• George Read (senator) [r]: (1733 - 1798) American lawyer and politician from Delaware; a representative to the Continental Congress, a signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787. ^[e]
• John Adams [r]: (1735-1826) Second U.S. President (from 1797 to 1801), attorney who successfully defended participants of the Boston Massacre of 1770, and a U.S. founding father. ^[e]
• Thomas Paine [r]: (1737-1809) English writer, intellectual and revolutionary whose works were influential during the Enlightenment in the United States and Europe. ^[e]
• United States of America [r]: a large nation in middle North America with a republic of fifty semi-independent states, a nation since 1776. ^[e]

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