The Colonial Period Timeline

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The Colonial Period Timeline Characteristics160
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History Timeline

• 1607 Jamestown, VA was settled
• 1620 Plymouth, MA was settled
• 1630 MA Bay Colony settled at Boston
• 1640 1st printing press in America
• 1695 Salem Witch Trials
• 1741- The Great Awakening
• 1760 Age of Reason begins

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Literature Timeline

• 1624 General History of Virginia
• 1630 Of Plymouth Plantation
• 1640 Bay Psalm Book
• 1650 Anne Bradstreets poetry
• 1702 Puritan History
• 1729 History of the Dividing Line
• 1741 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

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Native Americans

• Respect for nature
• All creatures are powerful
• Manito or Great Spirit life

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The Puritans (North)

• 2 Kinds
• Separatists (Pilgrims)
• Break Free!
• Puritans
• Reform!

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Influences on Puritans Pilgrims

• Martin Luther
• Men Wicked God All-Powerful
• John Calvin
• No Free Choice!!!
• Original Sin
• You are all sinners!
• Divine Providence
• God is in control
• Hard work

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The Planters (South)

• Concern for nature
• Concern for society
• Did not settle for religious reasons
• Chivalry Southern Gentleman
• Entertainment and distractions

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Why permanent settlement in America?

• South TOBACCO CRIMINAL ASYLUM
• North RELIGION
• 3 Important Americanisms
• Business drive
• Pursuit of liberty
• Religious zeal

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Puritan Literature

• Religious
• Puritan Plain Style
• purification, plainness, and the Divine Mission

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Southern Literature

• Entertaining
• Fiction and drama
• Nature and society

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Types of Colonial Writing

• Sermons
• Diaries
• Autobiographies
• Allegories
• Tracts
• Devotional poems
• Apocalyptic pronouncements
• Almanacs
• Elegies