Word process your responses.
1. Do a quick search of the period of the Enlightenment.
2. Be able to define metaphysics and Deism.
3. Be able to explain the contributions of Isaac Newton and John Locke to world thought.
4. Describe the general conditions of life for colonists in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
5. Describe the general conditions of life for African Americans and Native Americans in this
same period.
6. Using the introduction to Thomas Paine, describe what you think might be his personal
philosophy about life.
7. Paine begins The Crisis, No. 1 with this claim: “These are the times that try men’s souls.”
List the points that support this claim throughout the essay.
8. List three aphorisms and/or memorable images from the essay.