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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.
Empiricism
________ promotes the idea that knowledge comes from experience and observation of the world.
Progressivism
________ is the belief that humans are capable of infinite linear progress over time through reason and observation.
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A(n) ________ that upholds egalitarian values that keep all people equal "
Rationalism
________ is the idea that people can acquire knowledge using their reasoning abilities.
1743
In ________, he (Franklin) founded the American Philosophical Society to encourage the spirit of inquiry.
George II
________, seeing the strategic advantage of the English colony being a buffer zone between South Carolina and Spanish Florida, decided to buy Oglethorpe and his 20 like- minded owners in 1732. granted a charter to Oglethorpe, and directed the settlement of a colony named Georgia in honor of the king.
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.
Several ideas dominated Enlightenment thought
rationalism, empiricism, progressivism, and cosmopolitanism
In 1732 he started his annual publication Poor Richard
An Almanack, in which he gave readers much practical advice, such as "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. "
He used this knowledge to advocate the use of lightning rods
metal poles connected to wires directing lightning's electrical charge into the ground, thus saving wooden homes in cities like Philadelphia from catastrophic fires
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