... spread of English ideas to the colonies. The growing popularity of newspapers allowed for the allotment of the newly popularized ideas of the enlightenment movement. Beginning in Boston in the early 1700's with the Boston News-Letter, newspapers became strategic tools in the spreading of British ideas, spreading the English Enlightenment throughout the colonies. By the 1730's, newspapers had ... , the enlightenment became an attitude, altering the former way of life. The value that enlightened thinkers placed upon the natural rights, as described by John Locke, may be considered the theo...

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... Made by the Cherokees, a considerable amount of land had been acquired from the Cherokee Indians by many treaties of Washington, Monroe, and Jefferson administrations. Jackson followed them with the acquiring of more Cherokee lands. According to Henry Knox, secretary of war of Washington's administration, there ... will call for [they should be led to an agricultural way of life, thus lessening their need for land], In leading them thus to . . . civilization . . . I trust and believe we are acting for their greatest good." Thomas Jefferson believed that some people were dependent(slaves, ...

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