Authors Flashcards
Who wrote ironically during the Enlightenment about the “savages of North America” to criticize Europeans instead of indigenous people?
Benjamin Franklin
Who was the first person to use the word “pilgrim” to describe the community of believers who settled in Massachusetts?
William Bradford
Who was part of the great awakening
Jonathan Edwards
Who made his name as a printer, the and editor, writer and publisher?
Benjamin Franklin
Who served as governor of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and it’s historian?
William Bradford
Who wrote poems praising gods wondrous works?
Anne Bradstreet
Who was captured by unfriendly Indians and recorded terrors she endured?
Mary Rowlandson
Who wrote about a frenzied community in the late 1600s
Arthur Miller
Who wrote maxims or aphorisms for achieving wealth through hard work and thriftiness?
Benjamin Franklin
Who lived among the natives and wrote favorably about them?
Cabeza de Vaca
Who said “it was about this time that I conceiv’d the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfect. I wish’d to live without committing any fault at any time”
Benjamin Franklin
Who said “O sinner! Consider the fearful, danger you are in: it is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath, that you are held over in the hand of that God”
Jonathan Edwards
“There were twelve killed, some shot, some stabbed with their spears, some knocked down with their hatchets.”
Mary Rowlandson
