american writing

By savannahgeros9
  • Sep 6, 1492

    christopher columbus

    His fascinating journals provide a vivid record of the most significant journeys of his time.

  • Thomas Harriot

    One of the most influential writing was A Brief and true report of the New found land of Virginia

  • samuel de champlain

    The French and dutch also sent explorers such as samuel de champlain the "Father of New France

  • jamestown

    first permanent colony

  • John Winthrop

    he wrote we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill.

  • william wood

    Massachusetts bay colony noted that the native americans took the first ship they saw for a walking island.

  • Bay Psalm Book

    Bible's psalms were rewritten to fit the rhythms of familiar puritan hymns.

  • The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung up in america

    Was the first work by a north american women to be published.

  • Enlightenment

    Taking place in Europe that came to be know as the enlightenment

  • jamestown

    english colonies stretched all along the atlantic coast.
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    French and indian war

    france allied with a number of native american groups
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    pamphlets published

    became the fuel of the revolution

  • patrick henry

    thundered to the delegates at the second virgina convention

  • The colonies

    declared themselves to be "free and independent

  • constitution of the united states.

    america was born