Her father preached a more softened form of Puritanism that reflected the growth of more diverse religious practices of the Great Awakening period of early 1740s. Perhaps these ideas of Great Awakening and even more so of the Enlightenment, influenced Abigail's more independent mind and analytical spirit. ... (Akers 37) Mary Lincoln, however, with her firm formal education background and her ambitious character, saw these notions in a slightly different light. ...

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The Right to be Free Freedom. Webster's dictionary defines freedom as the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action as well as liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another. American history has been, in essence, a huge struggle for those very principles. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" (Qtd. In Sime and McCambridge, 225). ...

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Second topic that we discuss is the American Civil war which played the all-important role in the consciousness and political awakening. ... However, we can see that the people from 1800 are still cleaner in their character and straight in their approach. ...

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