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In 1607, the Virginia Company of London founded the colony of ___ in Virginia

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Jamestown

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The crop that turned around the fortunes of the colonists in Virginia

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Tobacco

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Nearly every European who came to America wanted to improve his or her life either ___ or ___

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Spiritually or materially

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Term used to describe religious groups that thought the Church of England was too corrupt and sought to purify it

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Puritans

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The term used for religious groups who left the Church of England altogether

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Separatists

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Three things are said to organize Puritan life:

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Religion, family, and community

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T or F, Puritan society basically frowned upon single people or bachelors

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True

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Puritan society was largely ___ or male dominated

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Patriarchal

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The way puritans raised children

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With obedience

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Puritans were generally ___ ______ toward other religions

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Less tolerant

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What led to bacons rebellion

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Nathaniel bacon did not want to pay the Indians for land (lawyer) from King Charles

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T or F, as European colonization continued, native Americans succumbed more and more to disease and illness

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True

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King ___ gave much American land away to relatives

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Charles

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14
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These colonies that were given to others were

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Proprietary collonies

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Country that gained upper hand in North America after the French and Indian war

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England

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Words of Sentence or phrase are wrenched out of normal English syntax (order)

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Inversion

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Upon the burning of our house intro

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Fire

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Middle of burning of our house

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Feels bad about loosing stuff but should not worry about stuff. Cooler house in heaven

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OPP: seamen are astonished by death of profane seaman, attribute his demise to

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The will of God

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Pilgrims first ship reaches land in America

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At cape cod

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At first thanksgiving, pilgrims are most thankful for

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Their store of game and corn

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OPP: which of following is true about organization of the selection

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Selection is divided into clearly marked excerpts from different chapters of bradfords original narrative

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23
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William bradfords account of voyage to America contains all of following EXCEPT

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The number of puritans aboard

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Which of following hardships did the pilgrims not endure on the voyage

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A harsh winter

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Why, according to Bradford did the mayflower arrive at cape cod safely

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God decided the passengers destiny

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26
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Bradford suggests that God was responsible for all the following except

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The repair of the main beam

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27
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Main purpose of treaty between American Indians and the Puritans was to establish

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Peace

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28
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Whom does Bradford call a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation

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Squanto

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NOTC: rowlandsons main intention is to

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Show how her experience revealed gods purpose

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30
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The group that captures rowlandson is forced to keep moving because of its

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English pursuers

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31
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Which of the following best describes rowlandsons attitude toward her children

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She cares passionately about them an grieves about being apart from them

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Rowlandson primarily draws strength from

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The belief in gods ultimate purpose

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Rowlandson receives food from several members of the tribe in exchange for

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Sewing and knitting

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34
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Which events occur last in the narrative of the captivity

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Mary rowlandson enters a wigwam

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35
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White Buffalo Woman in about

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How the Lakota first received their sacred pipe and the ceremony in which to use it

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36
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In her poem, Bradstreet mostly criticizes herself for

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Valuing material possessions too much

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37
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Bradstreet emphasizes both the things she has lost and

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Her memories of happy occasions in the house

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38
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The speaker in hide ident seems to imagine herself or himself as

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An instrument that God can shape

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39
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What phrase best illustrates the speakers wish in hide ident

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All the speakers words and actions reflect gods purpose

40
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Bradstreet first discovers the fire when she awakens and

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Heard cries of fire

41
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What caused the fire in brad streets poem

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The cause is not indicated

42
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Slave narratives are

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Against slavery

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Didactic content

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Moral teaching

44
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Motifs

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Characteristics

45
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What statement about the life of play dab Equinox is not true

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A member of the ships crew if flogged unmercifully and dies

46
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The conditions of the enslaved people in the ships hold are

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Dodo sting and stinking, with minimal food

47
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The destination of the slave ship is

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Barbados

48
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While he is in the merchants custody, equip I is astonished to see

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Flying fishes

49
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What statement is not true of the selection from equip is auotobiograpby

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Equinox explains in detail his sisters experience as a slave

50
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Olaudah equiano was born in

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West Africa

51
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How old was equiano when he was sold into slavery

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11

52
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The narrator thought the white men aboard the ship were not

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Handsome

53
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Early in the voyage, equiano says that he

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Wanted to die

54
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The tone of the life of elaydah equiano is one of

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Outrage

55
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Universal symbol or literary device, example number 4

4 seasons, directions, ages of man, lunar cycles

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Archetypes

56
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Analysis of how events contemporary to the author affect a literary work

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Historical literary criticism

57
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Historical events help shape a work of

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Literature

58
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Historical criticism focuses on world events, political climate, technological advancements, social trends from the time

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A work was written

59
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Puritan era marked by four major changes

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Economic
Religious
Political
Social

60
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Puritans: everyday world and spiritual world

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Intertwined

61
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Puritans used Bible as a ____

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Reference

62
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Life is a journey to

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Salvation

63
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Direct connection between biblical events and

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Their own lives

64
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Used writing to explore inner and outer lives for signs of the workings of

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God

65
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4 most common forms of writing

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Diaries
Histories
Journals
Poetry

66
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A way of writing that stresses simplicity and clarity of expression

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Plain style

67
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Often used to accommodate rhyme or meter

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Inversion

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A type of extended metaphor

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Conceit

69
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Religious revival movement, primarily in northeastern u.s.

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Great awakening

70
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Began at a time when enthusiasm for the old Puritan religion was declining

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Revival

71
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Congressional were loosing

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Numbers

72
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Looking to increase

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Membership

73
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Preachers tried to reinvigorate propels

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Lives/thought

74
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Made religion intensely

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Personal

75
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Preaching aimed to convince listeners of their need of

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Salvation through decisive action that included repentance

76
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~1620-1750

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Puritan Era

77
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Rowlandson wrote one of these narratives

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Captivity

78
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Gives scary sermons

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Jonathon Edwards

79
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Name of Bible puritans preferred

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Geneva

80
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He greatly helped the pilgrims

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Squanto

81
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His parents owned slaves in Africa

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Equiano

82
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Her hose burned down

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Anne Bradstreet

83
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In this poem, Taylor wants God to use him like a spinning wheel

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Huswifery

84
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Universal symbol for literary device

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Archetype

85
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This animal saw Aetaentsic fall

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Turtle

86
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When words of a sentence are out of normal order

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Syntax

87
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An extended metaphor used in a poem

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Conceit

88
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Style that describes Puritan writing

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Plain

89
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Religious group that settled in New England

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Puritans

90
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A trickster hero we read about

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Coyote

91
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This type of narrative often described the “middle passage”

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Slave

92
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Type of literary criticism we are primary using for this class

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Historical

93
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What puritans believed all of us are

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Sinners

94
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Period of religious renewal in the 1730s and 1740s

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Great awakening

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A contract

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Covenant

96
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Ice age travelers used

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Bering Land bridge

97
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Captivity narratives were often used as propaganda

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false

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