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Beginning in the 1400s, the European Renaissance represented an intellectual and cultural flowering in the arts, literature, philosophy, and the sciences. One of the most important tenets of the Renaissance was the belief in human progress, or the betterment of society.
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A religious viewpoint that rejected the Calvinist doctrines of original sin and predestination and stressed the basic goodness of human nature.
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The leader of radical abolitionism, Garrison sought immediate freedom for slaves without compensation to their owners.
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Secretary of State for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, and advocate of a vigorous expansionism. He is perhaps best known for the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867 for $7. 2 million, an act labeled "Seward's Folly. "
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America's leading exponent of religious liberalism, Channing was one of the founders of American Unitarianism.
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Penny pinching owner of baseball's Dodgers who oversaw their 1958 move from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Unhappy with the deterioration of Brooklyn's neighborhoods and lured by the economic promise of California, the Dodgers' move west illustrated the profound westward demographic shift in modern America.
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This amendment, adopted in 1964, barred a poll tax in federal elections.
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A group of New England intellectuals who glorified nature and believed that each person contains god like potentialities.
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A speech by President Truman in March 1947 that set the course of U. S. Foreign policy for the next generation, painting international affairs as a struggle between free democratic governments and tyrannical communist governments, and advocating American intervention to protect democratic governments.
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