Founding Documents
Written by Thomas Jefferson, THIS document outlines the reasons why the United States should be free from the rule of Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
"To My Dear and Loving Husband" and "Upon the Burning of our House" are both THIS kind of literary genre?
What are poems?
An example of a slave narrative, THIS text recounts the experience of an enslaved man as he is brought across the Atlantic to the Americas.
What is "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano"?
The author of "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano."
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
According to Anne Bradstreet in "Upon the Burning of our House," she is not that upset about the loss of material possessions because she knows her real home is HERE.
Where is heaven (an eternal home above)?
Unlike the Declaration of Independence, THIS is a legal document that protects specific individual rights and reserves certain powers for Congress.
What is the Bill of Rights?
An instance of early American religious fervor, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" is an example of THIS kind of public speaking.
What is a sermon?
Upon their arrival to Barbados, THIS is what happens to Olaudah Equiano and his fellow enslaved people.
What is sold into slavery at a merchant's yard?
The author of "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
Olaudah Equiano recounts that the sailors did THIS with their leftover fish, an example of the inhumane conditions the slaves experienced.
What is threw the leftovers overboard?
According to the Declaration of Independence, THIS is when people should alter or abolish their government.
When the government acts against the best interest of its people?
According to "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," THIS is the only reason sinners are not already burning in hell.
What is God's will (the only thing keeping sinners from falling into hell every day)?
Slave narratives like Equiano's were often used to publicize the cruelties of slavery and advocate for THIS movement, the end of slavery.
What is abolition?
The author of "Upon the Burning of our House."
Who is Anne Bradstreet?
The Declaration of Independence outlines several examples of THESE, adding evidence to why the United States should be governed by itself rather than by Great Britain.
What is how Great Britain has abused the American colonies?
The Bill of Rights, which guarantees certain rights for citizens, limits federal power, and reserves state authority, is a document written by THIS man.
Who is James Madison?
In "To My Dear and Loving Husband," THIS is how Anne Bradstreet describes the love between her and her husband.
What is as a gift she cannot repay?
THIS text, originally shared orally (by word of mouth), is an example of a North American legal document predating the United States by almost 600 years.
What is the Great Law of Peace (Iroquois Constitution)?
The author of the Preamble to the Constitution.
Who is Gouverneur Morris?
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" uses vivid imagery to describe the danger facing sinners, including an arrow aimed at us on a bow, a rock tearing through a web, and THIS creature being dangled over the fires of hell.
What is a spider (in the hand of God)?
Written to introduce the legal framework of the new United States, THIS document states its goals as "in order to form a more perfect union," "to establish justice," "to insure domestic tranquility," and "to promote the general welfare."
What is the Preamble to the Constitution?
Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards both reflect a belief that God controls every element of history and that we do not have perfect Free Will, an example of THIS kind of philosophy.
What is Determinism or Predestination?
Drawing extensively on the Declaration of Independence, THIS document written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton uses similar language to argue for women's right to vote.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
The author of The Great Law of Peace (the Iroquois Constitution).
Who is Dekanawidah?
THIS symbol of the natural world is the central metaphor describing the Iroquois Confederacy in the Great Law of Peace.
What is a a giant tree?