Meeting of Two Worlds
Two groups of people that intersected in the early 17th century.
Who are the Europeans and the Native Americans?
Early American Writers mostly described
What is the land and the people?
There were over this many different Native cultures at the time the Europeans arrived in the New World.
What is 300?
"...took the first ship they saw for a walking island, the mast to be a tree, the sail white clouds."
Who was William Wood?
This political pamphlet by Thomas Paine helped launch the Revolution.
What is "Common Sense"?
William Wood wrote that the Native Americans thought this was a "...walking island, the mast...a tree, the sail white clouds."
What is a ship?
In this tradition of writing, reason, logic, clarity and order were valued over beauty and adornment, and sermons, histories, treatises and spiritual poetry were the most common forms.
What is the Puritan Tradition?
There were over this many different languages spoken in the New World.
What is 200?
"...we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us."
Who was John Winthrop?
Jefferson's document articulated the "natural law" which would govern American.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The governor of Plimouth Plantation, William Bradford described this place and these people as "...a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men."
What are North America and the Native Americans?
Writers of this intellectual movement questioned traditional modes of thinking about government and power. Among these writers were Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry.
What is the American Enlightenment?
Instead of written languages, Native North American cultures relied on this.
What is oral tradition?
Who was Olaudah Equiano?
This document, written 11 years after the end of the Revolution, established the basic principles of the US government.
What is The Constitution?
The first permanent British colony was ..., established in...
What is Jamestown, in 1607?
Jonathan Edwards and other preachers called for people to rededicate themselves to the original Puritan vision in this movement that united many colonists around the belief that God was helping Americans establish new ways of life.
What is the Great Awakening?
Oral traditions passed these forms of stories from generation to generation.
History, legends and myths.
"La Relacion"
Who was Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca?
This wife of a Revolutionary patriot who would become the 2nd president urged her husband to "remember the ladies" and include women's rights in the founding documents.
Who was Abigail Adams?
These English Protestants sought to purify the Church of England and return to simpler ways of worshiping.
Who are the Puritans?
What are journals, diaries, letters, logs and historical narratives?
These are ways of explaining how the universe and humans came into being.
What are creation myths?
Chronicles of the Salem witch trials.
Who was Cotton Mather?
This former slave pointed out the discrepancy between the colonists' "cry for freedom" and their enslavement of fellow human beings.
Who was Phyllis Wheatley?