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Early American Literature

By CorrineFerdarko
  • Sep 5, 1492

    Christopher Colombus

    Christopher Colombus
    Christopher Colombus' voyages to America began.

  • Puritans

    Puritans
    Settlers at this time were mostly Puritans. Puritans wanted to "purify" the Church of England.

  • Jamestown

    Jamestown
    The first permanent colony was established in Jamestown.

  • The General History of Virginia

    The General History of Virginia
    John Smith publishes The General History of Virginia.

  • Puritan Poetry

    Puritan Poetry
    The first book issued in North America was called Bay Psalm Book. In this book, the Bible's psalms were rewritted to the rhythms of familiar Puritan hymns.

  • North American Women

    North American Women
    The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, by Anne Bradstreet, was the first work published by a North American woman.

  • King Phillip's War

    King Phillip's War
    The Puritans' victory in King Phillip's War ends Native American resistance in New Enlgand colonies.

  • The Great Awakening

    The Great Awakening
    During the Great Awakening, people started to feel that a higher power was helping Americans have a new standard for an ethical life.

  • The Enlightenment

    The Enlightenment
    There was a burst of intellectual activity in Europe, called the Enlightenment. Some writers that shaped the American Enlightenment were Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson.

  • Boston Newsletter

    Boston Newsletter
    The Boston Newsletter, the first American newspaper, is established.

  • Colonial Population

    Colonial Population
    The colonial population reaches about a half million; Boston's population is about 12,000.

  • English Colonies

    English Colonies
    English colonies stretched all along the Atlantic coast.

  • Pamphlets and Propaganda

    Pamphlets and Propaganda
    Between 1763 adn 1783, almost two thousand pamphlets were published. These pamphlets became the start of the Revolution.

  • Independence

    Independence
    The colonies declared themselves to be "free and independent".

  • Common Sense

    Common Sense
    The pamphlet, Common Sense, by Thomas Paine, helped propel the colonists to revolution.

  • US Constitution

    US Constitution
    The U.S. Constitution is approved.

  • Constitution of the United States

    Constitution of the United States
    When the Constitution was approved, the United States of America was born.

  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton
    Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiar naturalis principia mathematica, considered to be the most important work of the Scientific Revolution.