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Period Special Dates:

2200 B.C.—Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9)

2200 B.C. to 1600 A.D.

1607—Early settlement at Jamestown

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1. Oral literature: epic narratives, creation myths, stories, poems, songs.

2. Use stories to teach moral lessons and convey practical information about the natural world.

3. Deep respect for nature and animals.

4. Cyclical worldview.

5. Figurative language/parallelism.

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Even though America was originally there land, they didn't legally get citizenship until 1924.

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They have hundreds of native languages because of how broken apart native Americans where with tribes.

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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies 

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Puritanism and Early Settlement  of First "American" colonies 

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1600-1800

1507: Early Settlement of the first American colonies - Jamestown

1692: Salem Witch Trials

1741: Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

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1. Wrote mostly diaries and histories, which expressed the connections between God and their everyday lives.

2. South to "purify" the Church of England by reforming to the simpler forms of worship and church organization described in the New Testament.

3. Saw religion as a personal, inner experience.

4. Believed in original sin and "elect" who would be saved.

5. Used a plain style of writing.

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William Bradford

-"Of Plymouth Plantation"

Anne Bradstreet (poetry)

John Edwards

-"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Edward Taylor

-"Huswifery"

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They all left from Ingland willingly

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They contributed to the foundation of the American government and its founding

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Characteristics:

1. Mostly comprised of philosophers, scientists, writing speeches and pamphlets

2. Human beings can arrive at truth (God's rules) by using deductive reasoning, rather than relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith, or intuition

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1607 Early Settlement—Jamestown

1775-1783 Revolutionary War

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Famous Authors:

Benjamin Franklin

—Autobiography

Patrick Henry

—"Speech to the Virginia Convention"

Thomas Paine

—"The Crisis"

Phyllis Wheatley

—poetry

The Constitution

The Bill of Rights

The Declaration of Independence

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when the prosses of reasoning came.

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Rationalism is the superior ability to work.

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"The Enlightenment"

Period Characteristics:

1. Mostly comprised of philosophers, scientists, writing speeches and pamphlets

2. Human beings can arrive at truth (God's rules) by using deductive reasoning, rather than relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith, or intuition

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1775-1783 Revolutionary War

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The beginning of science being taught to use for reason.

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The start of the relentless attacks on metaphysical arguments.

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Transendentalisim / "The American Renaissance"

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Transendentalisim / "The American Renaissance"

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Special dates

1840-1860

Transcendentalism

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1. Everything in the world, including human beings, is a reflection of the Divine Soul.

2. People can use their intuition to behold God's spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls.

3. Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and link conformity to tradition.

4. Important social and political movements include the Abolitionist, Utopian, and Women's Suffrage Movements

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

—Nature

—"Self-Reliance"

Henry David Thoreau

—Walden

—Life in the Woods

Louisa May Alcott

—Little Women

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The literary scene of the period was dominated by a group of New England writers, the “Brahmins,” notably Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell.

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centred in the village of Concord, Massachusetts, and including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Bronson Alcott, George Ripley, and Margaret Fuller. The Transcendentalists contributed to the founding of a new national culture based on native elements. They advocated reforms in church, state, and society, contributing to the rise of free religion and the abolition movement and to the formation of various utopian communities, such as Brook Farm.

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2017-present

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Sexual harassment

Sexual abuse in the work place

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The movement is credited with giving visibility to the scope of sexual violence within the United States and across the world. It is also defined by a push for accountability, including examining power structures in the workplace that had enabled misconduct, and, in some cases, renewed efforts to seek justice for survivors through criminal and civil court systems. In the first year of the movement, numerous prominent men lost their jobs after they were publicly accused of wrongdoing.

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While Milano’s tweet is largely recognized as the tipping point of the modern Me Too movement, it was not the origin of the phrase “me too” in the context of sexual abuse survivors. More than a decade earlier, community activist Tarana Burke coined the phrase through her nonprofit, Just Be Inc., in Selma, Alabama.

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June 1692–May 1693

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The “hunts” were efforts to identify witches rather than pursuits of individuals who were already thought to be witches. Witches were considered to be followers of Satan who had traded their souls for his assistance. It was believed that they employed demons to accomplish magical deeds

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n 1689, through the influence of the Putnams, Samuel Parris, a merchant from Boston by way of Barbados, became the pastor of the village’s Congregational church. Parris, whose largely theological studies at Harvard College (now Harvard University) had been interrupted before he could graduate, was in the process of changing careers from business to the ministry. He brought to Salem Village his wife, their three children, a niece, and two slaves who were originally from Barbados—John Indian, a man, and Tituba, a woman.

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during the 1950s

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McCarthy’s subsequent search for communists in the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and elsewhere made him an incredibly polarizing figure. After McCarthy’s reelection in 1952, he obtained the chairmanship of the Committee on Government Operations of the Senate and of its Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

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“Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”—discredited McCarthy and helped to turn the tide of public opinion against him.

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born September 17, 1883, Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S

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He married Florence Herman in 1912 and had two sons, William E. Williams and Paul H. Williams.

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He was the first son of an English father and a Puerto Rican mother, and spoke both Spanish and English at home.

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lived from 1612-1672

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Bradstreet was born in a castle in Northampton, England, where her father was a steward for the Puritan earl of Lincoln. She enjoyed the advantages of privilege and wealth, once noting, "When I was about seven … I had at one time eight tutors … in languages, music, dancing."

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As a poet, she combined the longings of the human heart with devout faith and piety, and she is recognized as a true Puritan and one of America's greatest poets.

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born January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died October 7, 1849, Baltimore, Maryland

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He successfully sought expulsion from the academy, where he was absent from all drills and classes for a week. He proceeded to New York City and brought out a volume of Poems, containing several masterpieces, some showing the influence of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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Later in 1839 Poe’s Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque appeared (dated 1840). He resigned from Burton’s about June 1840 but returned in 1841 to edit its successor, Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine, in which he printed “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”—the first detective story. In 1843 his “The Gold Bug” won a prize of $100 from the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, which gave him great publicity.