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Colonial American Literature Flashcards

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Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles

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William Bradford - Best Known Work

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History of Plymouth Plantation

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History of New England

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Increase Mather - Best Known Work

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An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences

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Cotton Mather - Best Known Work

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Magnalia Christi Americana: The Ecclesiastical History of New England from its First Planting

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Thomas Morton - Best Known Work

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New English Canaan

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Brief History of the Pequot War

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What did Mary Rowlandson write about?

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Her captivity in the hands of Native Americans during King Philip’s War

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Important colonial book by Thomas Weld, Richard Mather, and John Eliot

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Bay Psalm Book

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Most famous collection by Anne Bradstreet

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The 10th Muse Lately Sprung Up in America

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Bradstreet poem contrasting personifications of England and America

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A Dialogue Between Old England and New

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Bradstreet poem comparing fire, water, air, and earth

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Four Elements

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Bradstreet epic poem comparing several ancient empires

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Four Monarchies

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Bradstreet poem comparing melancholic, choleric, sanguine, and phelgmatic

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Four Humours or Four Constitutions

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Michael Wigglesworth - Best Known Work

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Day of Doom

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George Alsop - Best Known Work

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A Character of the Province of Maryland

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Daniel Denton - Best Know Work

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Jonathan Edwards’s most famous sermon, a catalyst for the start of the Great Awakening

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

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Jonathan Edwards essay about conversion to Christianity, detailing his own experiences in Northampton MA

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A Faithful Narrative on the Surprising Work of God

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Jonathan Edwards work defending Calvinist doctrine and predestination

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Freedom of the Will

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Lucy Terry - Best Known Work

Ballad about a Native American attack, first known work of African American literature

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Bars Fight

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Jupiter Hammon - Best Known Work

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An Evening Thought Salvation By Christ with Penitential Cries

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Phillis Wheatley - Best known collection

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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

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Crevoceur - Best Known Work

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Letters from an American Farmer

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