Early Colonial
What is the name of the settlement run by Captain John Smith?
Jamestown
What kind of speech is "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" classified as?
A Sermon
Famously, Thomas Jefferson writes in the Declaration of Independence that humans are entitled to three things: ______, _________, and the ________ of _____________
Approximately how old was Olaudah Equiano at the time of his kidnapping?
Name the age range
10-14 years old
Correctly pronounce this word:
Werowocomoco
"Where-oh-whoa-coh-moh-coh"
What was the main purpose of publishing Narratives from the Early colonists?
Persuade Europeans to support colonization
What was the main purpose of most Puritan writing?
To glorify God/promote devout christianity
What was the main purpose of political writing at the time of the nation's birth?
Persuade colonists to support US independence
What was the main purpose of Slave narrative writing?
To persuade others to support abolishing slavery/the slave trade
Finish this phrase from Benjamin Franklin:
"Hunger is the best _____"
Pickle
How were Native Americans often portrayed in Early Colonial Writing
- Negatively and stereotypically
- Savage
What metaphorical image is primarily employed in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" to describe God keeping Humans from demise?
God holding humans up in his hand
Political writing at the time of the revolution focused on what kind of ideals?
Use the exact word
Enlightenment ideals
The assumption that black people are less intelligent/capable of the kind of writing they produce
Who wrote this?
"The good success of the business being thus oft brought to the very period of destruction; yet you see by what strange means God hath still delivered it"
John Smith (pg 75)
Exactly who is shot in this scenario?
"The savages having drawn from George Cassen whither Captain Smith was gone, prosecutinng that opportunity they followed him with three hundred bowmen, conducted by the King of Pamunkee, who in divisions searching the turnings of the river found Robinson and Emry by the fireside; those they shot full of arrows and slew"
Robinson and Emry
What are these lines suggesting you should do?
"Then while we live, in love let's so persevere, / That when we live no more, we may live ever"
persist in love
According to Thomas Jefferson, "repeated petitions" from the colonists have been met with repeated ______
repeated "injury" (pg 172)
What is the "improvident avarice" that Equiano highlights in his narrative?
That their captors would keep their slaves in such poor conditions as to lead on illness and death
What is the name of the African Trickster God who often appears in the form of a spider?
Anansi
How many weeks does John Smith claim he was kept prisoner by the natives?
"Six or Seven" (pg 72)
How long was Johnathon Edward's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" said to have lasted?
Six hours
"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated"
Paine (pg 174-175)
Finish this line from Phillis Wheatley's "An Hymn to the Evening:"
"Majestic grandeur! From the _______'s wing"
Zephyr
How many times does Jefferson begin a paragraph with the phrase "He has"?
*Hint: it is between 1-30
18