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The Pilgrims' journey on the Mayflower
The pilgrims left to go to American because they wanted to live in a place where they could freely express their religion. They wanted to be able to express themeselves in whatever way without the government persucuting them. They wanted to seperate from the Church of England. There was tension between the Puritans and the Church of England at the time also. -
The Pilgrims' Arrival in the New World
First off they got there at a terrible time. They didn't find a place to live at until December 11th. This meant that they could not get settled in before the bad weather came. If they could have gotten settled sooner, they might have had better homes and been better prepared for the winter. They also faced disease and starvation. The Mayflower stayed docked through the winter which provided shelter and a source of food. -
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They had a fairly good site on which to live and had access to corn that the Indians had stored. But even with that, various diseases and hunger caused about half of the pilgrims to die in the first winter. -
The Puritans' Arrival in the New World
The Puritans wrote mostly historical/factual documents, poetry, and sermons. The topics of their literature centered on self-reflection, the glorification of God, and sin and redemption. They did not write fiction or drama, which were considered sinful. The Puritians' style of writing can best be described as plain. They valued clarity of content over a clever style. An ornate or clever style would be a sign of vanity, which was a sin. -
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The Puritans believed in predestination or Calvinism, John Calvin's doctrine that God has already decided who will achieve salvation and who will not. The elect, or saints, who are to be saved cannot take election for granted, however. Because of that, all devout Puritans searched their souls with great rigor and frequency for signs of grace. The Puritans also believed in original sin ("In Adaam's fall, we sinned all.") and felt they would accomplish good through continual hard work and self-dis -
William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation
William Bradfors was born in England in 1590. He was a founder and longtime govener of of the Plymouth Colony settlement. Bradford was a passenger on the Mayflower’s trans-Atlantic journey. He also signed the Mayflower Compact. Around 1630, he began to write "Of Plymouth Plantation" which ended up being a two-volume book. -
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Some people say this book is more like a journal. But it is really just his account of past events. This book is mostly about on the journey of the pilgrims from England to North America and talks about how they found the Plymouth settlement. It gives his opinions on the biblical importance of the pilgrims reaching America and their hardships. -
Anne Bradstreet's "Upon the Burnng of Our House"
Anne Bradstreet was the first woman to be recognized as an accomplished New World Poet.Anne Bradstreet did not attend school but she did received an excellent education from her father. She was also the most prominent of early English poets of North America. She was also a prominent Puritan figure in American Literature. -
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She awakes to a thundering noise and screams of "Fire!". She gets up and cries out to God not to leave her helpless. She goes outside and watches the flames take over her home. She gives thanks to God, who has made her house and possessions to ashes. She believes those things are his, not hers, She beleives he has the right and ability to take things from humans when he wants. -
Edward Taylor's "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly"
Edward Taylor was an American Puritan poet and minister of the Congregational church at Westfield, Massachusetts for over fifty years. He was born in 1642 in the hamlet of Sketchley, Leicestershire, England. He taught school for a short time at Bagworth. He died on 24 June 1729. -
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A wasp lands on the web and fights ferociously to escape. The spider, knowing the wasp can sting, gently creeps and taps its back. When the wasp tries to attack, the spider retreats. Next, a fly is caught on the web. The spider approaches the defenseless insect and kills it. The poem becomes more universal, and it explains that Satan tries to entangle man into his trap through sin. God, however, can easily break Satan's web and save man. -
Cotton Mather's Wonder of the Invisible World
Mather was born in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Cotton Mather, was a socially and politically influential New England Puritan minister, prolific author, and pamphleteer. He was also a true beliver in witch craft. He concluded that wichcraft was the reason for children's problems. -
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This book was mainly about witchcraft. Mather wanted to expose witchcraft and to support his friends in the government. He gave detailed descriptions of each case. All the early editions of this work are extremely rare, especially the Boston edition and the present one. -
Benjamin Franklin''s "The Speech of Polly Baker," "Dialogue with the Gout," and The Autobiography
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston. He was taken out of school at the age of 10 work with his father at candle making. When Benjamin was 15 his brother started The New England Courant the first "newspaper" in Boston. He wanted to write for the paper too, but he knew that James would never let him. He began writing letters at night and signing them with the name with a different name. -
Patrick Henry's "Speech in the Virginia Convention"
Patrick Henry was an amazing speeker and a major figure of the American Revulotion. He known for his words, "Give me liberty or give me death!". He was also a leader and politician. -
Thomas Paine's The Crisis
Thomas Paine was born in England in 1737, to a Quaker father. He recieved very little formal education. But he did learn to read and write and do math. In the summer of 1772, Paine published "The Case of the Officers of Excise," It was his first political work -
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God may cast wicked men into hell at any given moment.
The Wicked deserve to be cast into hell. Divine justice does not prevent God from destroying the Wicked at any moment.
The Wicked, at this moment, suffer under God's condemnation to Hell.The Wicked, on earth - at this very moment - suffer the torments of Hell. This was some of his main points. -
Jonathan Edwards's "Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God"
Jonathan Edwards was a revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Protestant theologian. His initial affiliation inside Protestantism was Calvinist and Congregational. He was born on October 5, 1703. He died on March 22, 1758. He descendant of four generations of Puritan ministers and the most renowned and influential of Puritan leaders -
Thomas Jefferson's The Declaration of Independence
Thomas jefferson was the author of the Declaration of the Independence. He as also the third president. He was born in Shadwell, Virginia. Jefferson was born into one of the most prominent families of Virginia's planter elite. -
Colonialsism part 2
The Eighteenth century is often characterized as the Age of Reason. Logical reasoning was a major technique used by the writers of this period. Writing offered sound, clear arguments in spport of the causes. Personal writing also showed the reasoning process. The colonist believed that people are by nature good, not evil. The colonists also believed in free will, which is the opposite of predestination. -
Colonialism
American literature during this time period was mostly political, and it came in the form of pamplets, speeches, and newspapers/almanacs. The topics of their literature centered on politics: relations with Great Britain and the nature of government. Americans were still not writing any fiction or drama. The style of writing in most Colonia pieces can be best described as persuasive. Unlike the private soul- searching of the Puritans, much of what was produced by the Colonists was public writing. -
The Royal Proclamation
The Royal Proclamation gave the Native Americans more land. The Proclamtion restricted colonial settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains. It basically stoped the westward expansion. This is a benifit to the Indians but huge set back to the American colonists. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act required colonists to pay for stamps on newspaper, playing cards, dice, and legal documents. The Stamp Act causes a huge wave of protests and riots. The colonists thought that the British soldiers living withthem was too far. -
*other key battle or event* SONS OF LIBERTY
The first things the Sons of Liberty fought against was the Stamp Act. They fought for many many things. They are iconic in history. Some members wore a medal around their necks. They were a very important part of our history. -
The Townshend Acts
It was originated by Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament shortly after the repeal of the Stamp Act. They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. -
The Boston Massacre
A mob was throwing snowballs and stones at British soldiers. The soldiers got more people to help them and then even more citisens came. The mob got huge. Someone from the British side shot they first gunshot, from there it only got worse. Several peopl died and some were wounded. -
The Tea Act
The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to help the East India Company which was doing terrible financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. This tea was to be shipped directly to the colonies, and sold at a bargain price. -
The Boston Tea Party
Some of the Sons of Liberty dressed as American Indians. They snuck onto one of Britians ships and destroyed an entire shipment of tea. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor, ruining the tea. The British government responded harshly and it escalated into the American Revolution. The Tea Party became an important event of American history. -
The Intolerable Acts
This act was also called the coercive Acts. It put Massachusetts under the control of a military governor and moved the colony's meetings out of Boston. Citizens needed permsion from the govenor to hold any town meeting at all. -
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They both went on different routes just in case one of them got caught. Which Revere did, yet he was released because he bragging about all of the things he had done that night. As Revere walked into Lexington he prepared himself to confront the approaching Redcoats. -
Paul Revere's RIde
Seven hundred British soldiers marched out of Boston. Their plan was to capture powder and other supplies that the Patriot militia was stockpiling. They also wanted to capture John Hancock and Sam Adams. But the Patriots had plan! They had nightriders who rode to minutemen to warn them that the British were coming. Revere and Dawes saw the two lanterns and started their journey to warn everyone that the British were coming by water. Everywhere they went the screamed “THE REGULARS ARE COMING!” -
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While the British were searching, the American militia was able to reform, and they met the British at the North Bridge in Concord, and they were successful this time in making the British back down. More American reinforcements arrived, they forced the British army south to Boston, and the militias blockaded the narrow land accesses to Charlestown and Boston, starting the Siege of Boston. After the fight ended there were eight Americans dead and ten Americans wounded. -
Lexington & Concord Battles
This event is famously known as "The Shot Heard Around the World." It was 4:30 A.M. The British reached Lexington Green and were met by a group of about fifty to seventy-five minutemen. Historians really do not know who fired first. They just know someone did which started everything. The minutemen were clearly outnumbered by the British troops. They were forced to retreat. The British army was able to press forward to Concord, where they searched for the supplies, only to come up empty handed. -
*Other key battles or events* CONTINENTAL SOLDIER
The continental soldiers went through so many hardships through the seven years of battles, horrible living conditions, and separation from their friends and family. They had to try and keep warm and dry. They had no shoes, coats, and barley enough food to eat. America lost about 20,000 and 25,000 soldiers. They lost them to combat, disease, and prisoner of war deaths. They started with about 100,000 to 150,000 soldiers. -
The End of the Revolution
General Cornwallis was surrounded and forced to surrender the British position at Yorktown, Virginia. A few years later The Treaty of Paris ended the revolutionary war. America finally had tehir independence! -
Benjamin Franlkin continued
"The Speech of Polly Baker" was a fictional story of a woman put on trial in 1747 for having an illegitimate child. The "Dialouge with the Gout" was a story he wrote in 1780 during the six week period he was stuck in his house with gout. The Auttobiograpjhy was a book about himself and his life. -
Patirck Henry part 2
At the Second Virginia Convention Patrick Henry became widely known. He ended teh debate on the fourth day. He stood up and made a speech about how they need to fight back against the British becasue sitting and doing nothing wasn't working. When he ended his speech he did so wth the words: "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death." -
Thomas Pain part 2
Thomas Pain wrote The Crisis during war. He was under alot of harsh condtitions at the time. The troop were cold, hungry, and dishearted. Many want to quit or already had. In this time Paine wrote The Crisis. It was so inspiring that General George Washington orders it to be read to his troops at Valley Forge. -
Thomas Jefferson
The committee consisted of five individuals: Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. John Adas actually persuaded Jefferson to wirte the Declaration of Independence. He pointed out that he had a "felicity of expression". Thomas was without a doubrt the right person to write this. He wrote and rewrrote untuil it was perfect.
