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-The first detailed European observation of life were recorded in Spanish and French by explorers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.The explorers emphasized the Americas abundant resources, the peacefulness and hospitality

- Cabeza de Vaca also reported animals and plants that the Europeans never knew existed

-Vaca and his shipmates were captives or companions of the Native Americans they encountered

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The Salem Witch Hunt/Trials started in 1691, when two girls got skin lesions and had difficulty breathing. The town blamed two of the town's generally disliked women, calling them witches. Trying to save her life, one of the women "confessed" to knowing the names of other witches in Massachusetts. They believed her, and so the witch hunt began.

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The puritan legacy is about the english puritans who were founded in 1620 on cape cod. they shaped the americans by the moral, ethical, and religious convictions of the puritans. they were then followed ten years later by more puritans settlers and many sailed then as to what they know as new england.

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Puritan Politics: Government By Contract

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Puritan Politics: Government By Contract

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- The puritans believed that a contract existed between God and humanity which led them to believe that they should enter into agreements concerning the government.
- Their political views were undemocratic and there was no compromise.

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-The Puritans make comparisons between their life and the Bible.
-They were trained to see life as a pilgrimage or journey to salvation.
-Harvard was originally intended to train Puritan ministers for the rapidly expanding colony.
-They had Diaries and histories as important Puritan literature, because they were used to record the workings of God.

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The Age of Reason: Tinkerers and Experimenters

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The Age of Reason: Tinkerers and Experimenters

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-Europe began to call themselves rationalists. Rationalist is the belief that human beings can arrive at truth by using reason.
- Newton was comparing God to a clockworker, he would make a creation and left to let it run on its own like a clock.

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-Puritans is a broad term referring to multiple protistent groups that wanted to “purify” the Church of England and wanted the church to be simplified in order to resemble  biblical models.

-Didn’t believe that clergy or government should or could act as an intermediary between an individual and god.

-Many puritans were persecuted in England, they’d be put in jail and whipped, noses would be slit and their ears would be chopped off.

-Some fled to Holland, but a small group, that feared losing their identity as English Protestants, set sail for the “New World” in hopes of building it to be patterned after God’s work

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-When the Europeans first arrived to what is now North America, many groups of people were already living here.
-These people were already organized into societies and communities, and their traditions still remain in our country.

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-In 1721, a ship from the West Indies docked in Boston Harbor.
- For an addition to its cargo of sugar and molasses, the ship carried smallpox.
- This disease spread rapidly  as it disfigured victims and was often fatal.
-The outbreak in Boston was a major public health problem.
-The smallpox has been unknown in North America and the native people had no immunity to the virus.

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- They were very sure that they were correct but failed to understand more complex uncertainties that they faced within their religion, which caused the religion to be fueled by both certainty and doubt

- They believed only a select few (the elect) where saved by Jesus and the rest were dammed

- Doubt centered on whether someone was going to be saved by god or damned to hell, and mainly focused on whether or not you could feel the grace of god arriving in you

- A clear cut religion in its way was clouded with doubt and confusion as no one really knew what was gonna happen to who

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-Most pieces of literature, which was either practical or political, during this time were published in pamphlets
-Benjamin Franklin wrote his autobiography based on the Puritan impulse of self-examination

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-Deists found God through the form of the natural world. However, they thought God made it possible for all people at all times to discover natural laws.
-Deists believed that everyone was good because of their own gift and has the use of reason. They could use their gift to lead to good for others.