Glossary of early american lit test
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- puritans believed
- total depravity
limited atonement
irresistible grace
perserverance
predestination
- 1492
- columbus discovers america
- 1513
- balboa reaches the pacific
- 1593-42
- desoto explores teh mississippi river region
- 1619
- first africans brought to the english colonies
house of burgesses meets for the first time
- 1620
- mayflower compact
plymouth settled
- 1630
- massachusetts bay colonyfounded at salem
- 1636
- harvard, the first college in america, founded
- 1639
- first printing press in america
- 1775-83
- revolutionary war
- 1775
- battle of lexington and concord
- 1776
- declaration of independence
- 1781
- cornwallis surrenders to washington at yorktown
- 1788
- ratificatioin of the constitution
- 1789
- george washington inaugurated as first us president in new york city
- bay psalm book
- first book publised in america
- the day of doom
- wigglesworth
- 1740's
- the great awakening
- a true revelation of virginia
- john smith
- the general history of virginia, new england, and the summer isles
- john smith
- paraphrase
- putting something in your own words
- scrooby congregation
- not happy witht he church of england
- speedwell
- pilgrim ship that leaked and didnt make it to the new world
- of plymouth plantation
- bradford
- the tenth muse lately sprung up in america
- bradstreet
- taylor
- taught in westfield mass
- prepatory meditations
- taylor
- knight
- schoolteacher, business woman
took a trip from boston to new york and back- 5 months
- byrd
- born in va
lawyer
the royal society
inherited westover (26000 acres)
- the history of the dividing line
- byrd
line between va and nc
- edwards
- puritan minister
yale at 13
preached in northampton mass during great awakening
his sermons scared people
dismissed from the church
- freedom of the will
- edwards
- the nature of true virtue
- edwards
- married sarah pierrepont
- edwards
- edwards compares Gods wrath to
- storm clouds
waters behind a dam
bow and arrow
- theme
- general idea of insight
- tone
- attitude the writer takes toward a subject
- middle passage
- 1600s-1900s 12 million africans 2 million died
- the interesting narrative fo the life of olaudah equiano, or gustavus vassa, the african
- equiano
- the death of general wolfe
- benjamin west
- the power of sympathy
- brwon
first american novel
- freneau
- poet of the revolution
- the british prison ship
- freneau
- a poem on the glory of america
- freneau
- franklin
- "frist american"
philly printer
1st circulating library
university of pennsylvania
"join or die" cartoons
1st postmaster general
assisted w/ dec. of in., const.
degrees- yale and harvard
english royal academy- gold medal
- poor richards almanack
- franklin
- virtues
- tempreance
silence
*order*
resolution
frugality
industry
sincerity
justice
moderation
cleanliness
tranquility
chasity
humility
- aphorism
- a terse pointed statement expresssing some wise or clever observation about life
- pen name- richard saunders
- franklin
- henry
- didnt use a written speech
lawyer
house of burgesses
governer of va
- allusion
- reference made for the sake of comparison
- conceit
- an extended comparison between 2 startingly different things
- connotation
- suggested feeling or attitude
- common sense
- paine
most important pamplet in america
- the crisis
- paine
"these are the times that try men's souls"
- rhetorical question
- answers are obvious
- simile
- figure of speech that compare 2 different things using like or as
- jefferson
- first sec of state
3rd pres
college of william and mary
house of bugesses
statesman
planned the buildings of univ of va
collected books went to the library of congress
- commitee for declaration of independence writing
- adams, franklin, livingston, sherman, jefferson
- english king during the revolutionary war
- george III
- thomas jefferson's epitaph
- here was buried thomas jefferson,
author of the declaration of independence,
of the staute of virginia for religious freedom,
and father of the univ of va
- july 4 1826
- john adams and thomas jefferson died
50th anniversary of the signing of the dec of in
- declaration of independence (painting)
- trumbull
- paintings of jefferson and washington
- trumbull
- denotation
- literal meaning
- jean de crevecoeur
- "j. hector st john"
immigrant
was neutral in the war and sent to prison
- letters from and american farmer
- jean de crevecouer
- letters from and american farmer
- jean de crevecouer
