colonial era Flashcards
Poor Richard’s almanac
Benjamin Franklin
aphorism
short witty statement Poor Richard’s almanac B.Franklin
The autobiography of B. Franklin 4 parts
childhood, plan for America, about almanac, advocasy for British colonies in America
Common sense
Thomas Paine, pamphlet
The American crisis
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
The American crisis, Common sense
These are the times that…..
trie men’s souls. The American Crisis, Thomas Paine
which pamphlet spark revolutionary thinking in America
Common sense, Thomas Paine
16 pamphlets, simple style, summer soldier, sunshine patriot.
American crisis, Thomas Paine 1777-1783, encourage to keep fighting again British for independence
17-18 century of American literature
oral stories of Natives, puritans writing, early political writing
natives literature, form, features 4
oral, hero, god, nature, words created
puritans writing features
God and bible, symbols, hard live in colonies, simple style, inward reflection
predestination
the major belief of Puritans, Got determine your destiny
american colonial authors influenced by Native’s stories.
Cooper, Irvin Washington, Mark Twain, Emili Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville.
Mary Rowlandson’s
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
Mary Rowlandson’s
the first American bestseller
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God. Rowlandson’s
M…. R… WAS KIDNAPED by natives during the war led by
King Phillip Mary Rowlandson
the most popular genre of writing in early America
mostly written by men or women?
captivity narratives, men
Leathestrocking Tales
James Fenimore Cooper, 5 novels most famous The last of Mohicans
French Indian war which novel setting
The last of the Mohicans
a major theme in The last of the Mohicans
interracial relationship
Jamestown colony leader and political writer
John Smith
John Smith two books
A true relationship of such an occurrence and accidents of note as happens in Virginia
The general history of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles
John Smith
Pocahontas story which book, author
John Smith, The general history of Virginia, new England and the summer isles
puritan who help set up a colony of Massechusets bay
John Winthrop
a city on a hill
John Winthrop, description of a new colony
En route to America, he gave a lay sermon …
John Winthrop, A Model of Christian charity
The History of New England
diary of John Winthrop - Massetchuset colony
the main source of living conditions in Massetchuset colony / new England
The history of New England
who believed that land should be bought from Indians
Roger Williams
The Bloody Tenent of Persecution, for the cause of conscience
Roger William
The Federalist or Federalist papers
85 essays to encourage New State to ratify a constitution
Federalist papers authors
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, john Jay
the American first poet
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Brandstreet religion
Puritan
Anne Bradstreet believe in
predestination
Versus Upon a Burning of our House
Anne Bradstreet
In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elisabeth
ANNE BRADSTREET
On being brought from Africa
Phillis Wheatley
first Afro-American poet
Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley
On being brought from Africa, race, God, the origin of her before in America
——— and Great awakening: Sermons and Biography
Johnatan Ewards
European movement of philosophy and science
The Age of reason / new discoveries/, influence on America religion life
the most famous Great awakening sermon who, name, where
Connecticut, Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the hands of an angry God
“Their foot shall slide in due time” who / book
part of the book Sinners in the hand of an angry God
from Bible, John Edwards
John Edwards -religion
Puritan, predestination, Great awakening period- back to religion
the central figure and the founder of a great awakening
Jonathan Edwards
The Salem’s which trial, spectral evidence
Cotton Mather’s Magnalia Christy Americana
the accusers could claim that the ghost of the accused was torturing them, author,
Cotton Mather’s, spectral evidence, Salem witch trial
author of execution sermons and the first book of crime
Cotton Mather’s
Pillar’s of Salt
Cotton Mather’s, collection of execution sermons
the first American crime book
Pillars of Salt, execution sermons,
Magnalia Christy of Americana translate to English, writer
The glorious work of Christ in America, Cotton Mather’s
The new world was chosen by God to be a chosen land
Magnolia Christy of Americana, religious, puritans influence on colonies. Cotton Mathers, not puritans style, complex.
Magnalia Christy Americana influenced 3 authors
Poe, Harriet Beecher Stove, Natalian Hawthorn
Who attempted in literature definition of American
Jan De Creveceour
Letters from an American farmer
Jan De Creveceour
Which American book was first to have success in Europe
Letters from an American farmer
simple language, fictive letters between an American farmer, James and an Englishman
Letters from an American farmer
