American Colonialism Flashcards
The first migration
Ice age travelers
American colonialism date
1620-1800
How long had people been living in the new world before European explorers arrived
20,000-40,000
What was the largest Native American civilization
How many living there
Aztec empire -15th century
Millions
Christopher Columbus life
1451-1506
Alvar Nunez Cabrera de Vaca life
1490-1557
Who was Alvar
Treasurer of Spanish expedition
Landed on west coast of Florida
What did the Spanish expedition do
Went inland
Got lost
Waited for 1 year for a ship
Walked for eight years to Texas before rescued
What did Alvar do after expedition got rescued
Wrote narrative
Who did American literature begin with
Puritans
Who were American rationalists
Thomas Jefferson, Sam Adams, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington
Where did puritans arrive and when (what were two settlements before
1620 cape cod
Roanoke and Jamestown
By what date and how many puritans tried coming to…
1640 20,000 New England
Why did puritans come
Business venture: land ,minerals, animals people lumber
What did Protestant sect aim to do
1560 purify the church
Why did the Protestants want to purify the church
Return to simpler forms of worship
What did they do to Protestants
Persecuted them in England
What happened in 1608 and how long did it go on for
William Bradford led puritans to holland till 1620
Why did they leave
Fraud they were going to turn Dutch and lose identity a British Protestants
What is the city upon a hill
Puritans believed they were gods chosen people like the Jews
Jews persecuted in Egypt , puritans persecuted by British religious groups
Jews crossed desert to go to promised land puritans crossed Atlantic to go to new world
Bulging city upon a hill to show people how to live
Why did puritans think humans were evil
Because of Adam and eves original sin we are born into sin
Elect and unregenerate
Those predestined for salvation
Larger group of people who are evil
Two possible signs you are elect
Intensely spiritual experience in which you felt the spirit of god come over you
Living a Christ like life
Mayflower compact
First sign of democracy in new world
How they would govern themselves when they got to the new world
Precursor to Declaration of Independence and BOR
What did the puritans believe about the bible
It is the literal word of god
What did puritans value and why
Education because you needed to be able to read the word of god and engage in theological discussion because if not you are going to hell
What did the puritans found
1636 Harvard college 16 years after arrived to train Puritan ministers for an expanding colony
What did they bring to new world
Printing press in c.1639
What did they write
Diaries poetry sermons diaries to record work of god
Who wrote the first diary
William Bradford ; of Plymouth plantation
Cotton Mather
1663 1728
Puritan minister first scientist in the new world
April 1721
Ship from West Indies came to the port in Boston harbor and introduced small pox
What did puritans believe the cause of sickness was
Sin
What idea did Mather have
Inoculation from Turkish doctor
Nod began public campaign
How did Boston medical community react
Violently opposed and bombed Mather’s house
Muslim culture ere unregenerate
Inoculation results
6,000 people contracted 850 died 300 people inoculated: 6 died
CLOSE MINDED
What was rationalism a byproduct of
Age on enlightenment / reason in eighteenth and seventeenth centuries
What is rationalism
Elites that you can arrive at truth through logical though
Do not need to rely on church , traditions of the past or intuition
Sir Isaac Newton
1642 -1727
God as a clockmaker
God does not intervene in world
Explains evil
Why did rationalists believe human nature is essentially good?
We have a benevolent god hat gave us all ability to think so that we can discover truth and be happy
Deism
Spiritual implications of rationalism
American Revolutionary War
1775-1783
Battles were fought in winter
Valley forge
1776
Declared independence from Great Britain
The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Quintessential work of American rationalism
