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The first migration

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Ice age travelers

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American colonialism date

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1620-1800

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How long had people been living in the new world before European explorers arrived

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20,000-40,000

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What was the largest Native American civilization

How many living there

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Aztec empire -15th century

Millions

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Christopher Columbus life

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1451-1506

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Alvar Nunez Cabrera de Vaca life

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1490-1557

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Who was Alvar

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Treasurer of Spanish expedition

Landed on west coast of Florida

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What did the Spanish expedition do

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Went inland
Got lost
Waited for 1 year for a ship
Walked for eight years to Texas before rescued

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What did Alvar do after expedition got rescued

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Wrote narrative

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Who did American literature begin with

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Puritans

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Who were American rationalists

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Thomas Jefferson, Sam Adams, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington

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Where did puritans arrive and when (what were two settlements before

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1620 cape cod

Roanoke and Jamestown

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By what date and how many puritans tried coming to…

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1640 20,000 New England

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Why did puritans come

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Business venture: land ,minerals, animals people lumber

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What did Protestant sect aim to do

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1560 purify the church

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Why did the Protestants want to purify the church

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Return to simpler forms of worship

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What did they do to Protestants

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Persecuted them in England

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What happened in 1608 and how long did it go on for

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William Bradford led puritans to holland till 1620

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Why did they leave

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Fraud they were going to turn Dutch and lose identity a British Protestants

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What is the city upon a hill

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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

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Why did puritans think humans were evil

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Because of Adam and eves original sin we are born into sin

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Elect and unregenerate

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Those predestined for salvation

Larger group of people who are evil

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Two possible signs you are elect

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Intensely spiritual experience in which you felt the spirit of god come over you
Living a Christ like life

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Mayflower compact

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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

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What did the puritans believe about the bible

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It is the literal word of god

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What did puritans value and why

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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

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What did the puritans found

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1636 Harvard college 16 years after arrived to train Puritan ministers for an expanding colony

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What did they bring to new world

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Printing press in c.1639

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What did they write

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Diaries poetry sermons diaries to record work of god

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Who wrote the first diary

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William Bradford ; of Plymouth plantation

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Cotton Mather

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1663 1728

Puritan minister first scientist in the new world

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April 1721

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Ship from West Indies came to the port in Boston harbor and introduced small pox

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What did puritans believe the cause of sickness was

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Sin

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What idea did Mather have

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Inoculation from Turkish doctor

Nod began public campaign

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How did Boston medical community react

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Violently opposed and bombed Mather’s house

Muslim culture ere unregenerate

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Inoculation results

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6,000 people contracted 850 died 300 people inoculated: 6 died
CLOSE MINDED

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What was rationalism a byproduct of

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Age on enlightenment / reason in eighteenth and seventeenth centuries

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What is rationalism

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Elites that you can arrive at truth through logical though

Do not need to rely on church , traditions of the past or intuition

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Sir Isaac Newton

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1642 -1727
God as a clockmaker
God does not intervene in world
Explains evil

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Why did rationalists believe human nature is essentially good?

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We have a benevolent god hat gave us all ability to think so that we can discover truth and be happy

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Deism

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Spiritual implications of rationalism

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American Revolutionary War

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1775-1783

Battles were fought in winter
Valley forge

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1776

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Declared independence from Great Britain

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The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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Quintessential work of American rationalism

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