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Analyzing a Timeline
Historical Background
Literature of the Period
Our Native American Heritage
In the Mix!
100
Name three explorers who helped open the North American continent to Europeans.
Who are Juan Ponce de Leon, Vasco Nunez de Balboa, and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado?
100
These tribes are in the Southwest culture area.
What are the Hopi, Pueblo, Navajo, and Apache?
100
This is one common characteristic among the myths, legends, and folk tales of Native American literature.
What is a deep respect for nature?
100
This English word was shortened from the Native American word "rahaugcum."
What is "raccoon"?
100
This series of religious revivals was led by Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield.
What is the Great Awakening?
200
This amount of time elapsed between the first European encounter with Native Americans and the first permanent European settlement.
What is 73 years?
200
These geographic features might have led to the development of different ways of life.
What are bodies of water, forests, and mountains?
200
This Italian, living in Portugal, wrote about his exploration in his Journal of the First Voyage to America.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
200
This man once said (about the Native American language) that he did not know "a language spoken in Europe that hath words of more sweetness and greatness."
Who is William Penn?
200
This book, first published around 1690, combined instruction in spelling and reading with moralistic teachings, such as "In Adam's fall / We sinned all."
What is The New England Primer?
300
This happened in the field of publishing in 1735.
What is John Peter Zenger was acquitted of libel charges?
300
This group of people sailed to America on the Mayflower in 1620; they established a settlement at Plymouth, Massachusetts and chose to withdraw from the Church.
Who are Separatists?
300
The purpose of these Puritan genres was to provide spiritual insight and instruction.
What are theological studies, hymns, histories, biographies, and autobiographies?
300
This English word was shortened from the Native American word "segankw."
What is "skunk"?
300
This was one of the first books printed in the colonies and was the standard hymnal of its time. It had three authors, one of whom was Richard Mather.
What is the Bay Psalm Book?
400
This was the cause of the executions of 1692.
What are convictions of witchcraft? (Or, What are the Salem Witch Trials?)
400
This is the idea that one can accomplish good only through continual hard work and self-discipline.
What is the "Puritan ethic"?
400
This female Puritan poet wrote with a moving, personal voice. John Berryman wrote a poem as an homage to this woman.
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
400
Name three states that have Native American origins.
What are Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, and Wyoming?
400
This father and son both wrote about the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
Who are Increase and Cotton Mather?
500
This idea of life in the colonies is suggested by the painting of King Philip's raid.
What are violent conflicts between the colonists and Native Americans?
500
This man was governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who is John Winthrop?
500
The Puritans founded this higher-level learning institution in 1636 in order to ensure a well-educated ministry.
What is Harvard College?
500
Out of our six Great Lakes, this number has names that were borrowed from Native American words.
What is five?
500
This leader of the settlement at Jamestown wrote The General History of Virginia to describe his experiences for Europeans.
Who is John Smith?