Beliefs
The first European explorers believed America was a place of great __________.
What is opportunity?
This group of Puritan colonists arrived to America on the ship, the Mayflower.
Who are pilgrims?
Anne Bradstreet was a famous English ____ in colonial times, and was the first female writer whose work was published in the North American colonies.
What is poet?
The colonial era and the age of reason lasted through about what centuries?
What is ~1400 - ~1800?
This Disney movie depicts the Age of Exploration/Colonization, featuring a Native American woman who falls in love with an English colonist.
What is Pocahontas?
This group believed that the world is inherently evil and God would only save the "elect".
Who are Puritans?
This US president and primary author of the Declaration Of Independence is featured on the two dollar bill.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This man was a political writer in the 1700s, famously known to have written 51 of the 85 The Federalist Papers.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Puritans began to branch off from the Church of England in the late ___ century.
This game that can be played in craft or survival mode can be connected to the Colonialism era through it's use of building a civilization out of the untamed land.
What is Minecraft?
This way of thinking led people to compare God to a clockmaker.
What is rationalism?
This man used the autobiography format outside of it's original religious format to write about becoming a self-made American.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The speech given by Patrick Henry to the Second Virginia Conference includes the famous line, "___ __ _____, __ ___ __ _____!"
What is, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"?
Rationalist beliefs began to arise in what century?
What is the 15th century?
This popular Halloween movie depicts witches being tried and executed in Puritan times.
What is Hocus Pocus?
This group believed that the world is good, and the best way to worship God was to do good for others.
Who are Deists?
This was the man who gave a political speech to the Second Virginia Conference about the inevitability of war with the British.
Who is Patrick Henry?
The author of a revolutionary autobiography about becoming a self made American is named?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The Second Virginia Conference happened in what year?
What is 1775?
This play about witch trials, written by Arthur Miller as an allegory for McCarthyism, is named?
Puritans formed what kind of government system in the original colonies that ended up only slightly working?
A Puritan minister who used inoculation for the first time to treat people with smallpox in Boston, Massachusetts. Also wrote The Wonders of the Invisible World.
Who is Cotton Mather?
The collection of essays written by French-American author Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur is called?
What is Letters from an American Farmer?
One of the largest smallpox outbreaks in Boston, Massachusetts happened when?
What is the early 1700s?
Based on one of the founding fathers, this Broadway musical written by Lin-Manuel Miranda is named after it's main character.
What is Hamilton?