Authors
The author of "Remarks Concerning the Savages"
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
"This Rampant Hag, Martha Carrier, was the person, of whom the Confessions of the Witches, and of her own Children among the rest, agreed, That the Devil had promised her, she should be Queen of [the Hebrews].”
What is "Wonders of the Invisible World"?
This period is characterized by highly religious language, especially sermons and poetry.
What is "The Colonial Period"?
The Puritans were an anti-ritualistic sect of this.
What is "Anglicanism" or "The Church of England"?
The Puritans followed the teachings of this religious reformer.
Who is John Calvin?
Author of "Wonders of the Invisible World."
Who is Cotton Mather?
“These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
What is "The American Crisis?"
This literary period is characterized by discovery, the charting of new territory (often driven by Catholic and Protestant competition), and first encounters with Native Americans.
What is "Pre-Colonial Literature" or "The Age of Exploration"?
She was the first published author from the New World.
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
According to "Wonders," bargaining devils always tried to tempt women into this (to seal the deal).
What is "signing a book"?
Roger Williams left this tract in England after receiving the Rhode Island charter from parliament . . . and quickly sailed away!
What is "The Bloody Tenet of Persecution"?
"For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world.”
This literary period is characterized by deeply-felt emotional language, a reverence for nature, and a distrust of human society.
What is "Romanticism" or "the Romantic Period"?
Though a terrible negotiator, he saved the first permanent New World settlement from ruin and starvation.
Who is John Smith?
Thomas Paine says that New England has had an easier time expelling the British because of their lack of these.
What are Tories?
Jonathan Edwards wrote this sermon to show how the message of the Great Awakening is compatible with Puritanism: spiritual truth can come from individual insight.
What is "The Divine and Supernatural Light"?
"Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.”
What is "The Way to Wealth" or Poor Richard's Almanac?
The Enlightenment thinkers, sick of all the religious controversies in Europe, tried to base all morality on these; it was thought people were endowed with these by God, the Great Clock-Maker.
What are "rights" or "natural rights"?
This was the first settlement to offer true religious freedom.
This settler commandeered Merrymount, sold guns to the Natives, and wrote dirty poems.
Who is Thomas Morton?
John Smith primarily wrote this as propaganda to get young men to come to the New World.
What is "A Description of New England"?
“We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James . . . having undertaken for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and the honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia; Do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid.”
What is "Of Plymouth Plantation" or "The Mayflower Compact"?
Enlightenment/Revolutionary Literature esteems this ability or capacity above all else; it is embodied in the art and symmetrical architecture of the day, but especially in political pamphlets.
What is "reason"?
The Puritans in the New World began this church.
What is "the Congregationalist Church"?
Thomas Granger was a accused of this sin and executed for it.
What is "buggery"?