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colonial era Flashcards

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Poor Richard’s almanac

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Benjamin Franklin

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aphorism

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short witty statement Poor Richard’s almanac B.Franklin

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The autobiography of B. Franklin 4 parts

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childhood, plan for America, about almanac, advocasy for British colonies in America

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Common sense

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Thomas Paine, pamphlet

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The American crisis

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Thomas Paine

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Thomas Paine

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The American crisis, Common sense

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These are the times that…..

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trie men’s souls. The American Crisis, Thomas Paine

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which pamphlet spark revolutionary thinking in America

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Common sense, Thomas Paine

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16 pamphlets, simple style, summer soldier, sunshine patriot.

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American crisis, Thomas Paine 1777-1783, encourage to keep fighting again British for independence

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17-18 century of American literature

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oral stories of Natives, puritans writing, early political writing

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natives literature, form, features 4

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oral, hero, god, nature, words created

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puritans writing features

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God and bible, symbols, hard live in colonies, simple style, inward reflection

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predestination

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the major belief of Puritans, Got determine your destiny

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american colonial authors influenced by Native’s stories.

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Cooper, Irvin Washington, Mark Twain, Emili Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville.

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Mary Rowlandson’s

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The Sovereignty and Goodness of God

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The Sovereignty and Goodness of God

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Mary Rowlandson’s

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the first American bestseller

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The Sovereignty and Goodness of God. Rowlandson’s

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M…. R… WAS KIDNAPED by natives during the war led by

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King Phillip Mary Rowlandson

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the most popular genre of writing in early America

mostly written by men or women?

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captivity narratives, men

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Leathestrocking Tales

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James Fenimore Cooper, 5 novels most famous The last of Mohicans

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French Indian war which novel setting

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The last of the Mohicans

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a major theme in The last of the Mohicans

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interracial relationship

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Jamestown colony leader and political writer

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John Smith

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John Smith two books

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A true relationship of such an occurrence and accidents of note as happens in Virginia

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The general history of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles

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John Smith

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Pocahontas story which book, author

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John Smith, The general history of Virginia, new England and the summer isles

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puritan who help set up a colony of Massechusets bay

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John Winthrop

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a city on a hill

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John Winthrop, description of a new colony

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En route to America, he gave a lay sermon …

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John Winthrop, A Model of Christian charity

30
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The History of New England

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diary of John Winthrop - Massetchuset colony

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the main source of living conditions in Massetchuset colony / new England

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The history of New England

32
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who believed that land should be bought from Indians

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Roger Williams

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The Bloody Tenent of Persecution, for the cause of conscience

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Roger William

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The Federalist or Federalist papers

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85 essays to encourage New State to ratify a constitution

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Federalist papers authors

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Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, john Jay

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the American first poet

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Anne Bradstreet

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Anne Brandstreet religion

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Puritan

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Anne Bradstreet believe in

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predestination

39
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Versus Upon a Burning of our House

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Anne Bradstreet

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In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess Queen Elisabeth

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ANNE BRADSTREET

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On being brought from Africa

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Phillis Wheatley

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first Afro-American poet

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Phillis Wheatley

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Phillis Wheatley

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On being brought from Africa, race, God, the origin of her before in America

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——— and Great awakening: Sermons and Biography

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Johnatan Ewards

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European movement of philosophy and science

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The Age of reason / new discoveries/, influence on America religion life

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the most famous Great awakening sermon who, name, where

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Connecticut, Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the hands of an angry God

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“Their foot shall slide in due time” who / book

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part of the book Sinners in the hand of an angry God

from Bible, John Edwards

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John Edwards -religion

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Puritan, predestination, Great awakening period- back to religion

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the central figure and the founder of a great awakening

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Jonathan Edwards

50
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The Salem’s which trial, spectral evidence

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Cotton Mather’s Magnalia Christy Americana

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the accusers could claim that the ghost of the accused was torturing them, author,

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Cotton Mather’s, spectral evidence, Salem witch trial

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author of execution sermons and the first book of crime

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Cotton Mather’s

53
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Pillar’s of Salt

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Cotton Mather’s, collection of execution sermons

54
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the first American crime book

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Pillars of Salt, execution sermons,

55
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Magnalia Christy of Americana translate to English, writer

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The glorious work of Christ in America, Cotton Mather’s

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The new world was chosen by God to be a chosen land

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Magnolia Christy of Americana, religious, puritans influence on colonies. Cotton Mathers, not puritans style, complex.

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Magnalia Christy Americana influenced 3 authors

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Poe, Harriet Beecher Stove, Natalian Hawthorn

58
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Who attempted in literature definition of American

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Jan De Creveceour

59
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Letters from an American farmer

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Jan De Creveceour

60
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Which American book was first to have success in Europe

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Letters from an American farmer

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simple language, fictive letters between an American farmer, James and an Englishman

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Letters from an American farmer

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