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Feb 1, 1492
Colonialism
They mostly wrote political things as in pamphlets,speeches, and newspapers/almanacs. Their topics for literature was relations of great britian. They still did not write Fiction or Drama. The Eighteenth Century was known as the Age Of Reason -
Journey on the Mayflower
The Mayflower departed Plymouth, England, on 6 September 1620. -
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The Journey of the Mayflower
On September 6th 1620 the Mayflower left England.
On November 9th 1620 the Mayflower finally reached their destination. -
Arrival of the Mayflower
The Mayflower arrived at Cape Cod on 9 November 1620, after a 66 day voyage. -
The Puritan's Arrival in the New World
Theses Puritans wrote historical/factual documents, poetry, and sermons. They covered mainly slef-reflection, the glorification of God, last but not least they covered Sin&Redemption. They did not write drama or fiction. They had a style of writing called "Plain." They Valued Clarity of content over a clever style. The Puritans believed in Original Sin. -
William Bradford's Of a Plymouth Plantation
William Braford wrote his book about his experiece along with all of the others.
He was a good man. He was one of the political people within the seperatists -
Anne Bradstreet's "Upon the Burning of Our House"
Anee Bradstreet wrote about the night that her house was burning in front of her. She said it was the will of God and if God wanted that to happen then let it be. -
Edward Taylor's "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly"
Edward writes this and the meaning behind it is amazing. Edward Taylor was a determined man. He wrote exellent Poems -
Jonathan Edwards's "Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God"
This sermon was very cruel. The sermon made people run out of the church. Jonathan really scared all of the pilgrims. -
The Royal Proclamation
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
The Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767, by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the programme. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry -
The Tea Act
The Tea Act was the final straw in a series of unpopular policies and taxes imposed by Britain on her American colonies. The policy ignited a “powder keg” of opposition and resentment among American colonists and was the catalyst of the Boston Tea Party. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
Patrick Henry's "Speech in the Virginia Convention"
Patrick Henry was very brave for doing that speech. He was arrested afterward. -
Lexington & Concord Battles
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the -
Thomas Jefferson's The Declaration of Independence
THomas Jefferson changed the world with this single Document. -
Thomas Paine's The Crisis
Thomas was a young brilliant man who knew what as right and what needed to be done to fix it. -
Benjimin Franklin's "THe Speech of Polly Baker," "Dialogue with the Gout" and The Autobiography
Ben Franklin was a very successful man.He found out a way to make the lgiht bulb. He was young too. -
The End of the Revolution
The war for American independence began with military conflict in 1775 and lasted at least until 1783 when the peace treaty with the British was signed. In fact, Native Americans in the west (who were allied with the British, but not included in the 1783 negotiations) continued to fight and didn't sign a treaty with the United States until 1795. The Revolution was a long, hard, and difficult struggle. -
Cotton Mather's "Wonders of the Invisible World"
Author/Creator: Mather, Cotton (1663-1728)
Place Written: London, England
Type: Book
Date: 1693 -
Paul Revere's Ride
"Paul Revere's Ride" is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere on April 18, 1775,
