The Age of Reason is a time when the Puritan ideas that the colonizers who came to what we now understand as the United States of America shifted to ideas of the the science, technology, and progress instead. Why do you think the tides changed from a focus on religion to a focus on governing and independence? Consider our lessons about the Puritans when answering--and that "shifted" doesn't mean the Puritan ideas were left completely in the dirt. Also consider that the Age of Reason led to the Revolutionary War, which Thomas Paine's texts and Hamilton's soundtrack/film guides us through--why? How did the ideas of the time lead to the war for independence?
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