“By the 1490s, when the great wave of european exploration of the Americas started, numerous groups of American Indians were living all over North America.”

“What’s important to remember us that there were people here when the europeans arrived in the fifteenth century; descendants of those people are still here, and their traditions remain.”

“People first migrated to North America from twenty to over forty thousand years ago. When the first Europeans arrived in the fifteenth century, American Indians were living in diverse societies spread across the continent.”

-emphasizes the importance of the Native Americans presence before the europeans arrived

Cabeza de Vaca: A spanish explorer who landed on what is now the west coast of Florida but never returned back to hs ship. De Vaca and his crew wandered in the Texas gulf area for eight years and recorded all of their findings. He recorded the lives of all Native Americans such as what they ate and how they interacted with new people. All of his recordings were in spanish much like all other explorers from the same area. When he met various Natives he was either a captive or companion.

The “first and most famous” group of English Puritans to land, came in 1620, on the tip of Cape Cod. Some ten years later, seven hundred more came to New England. By 1640, there were at least twenty thousand English Puritans who settled onto the new land. American character is solely based off convictions of the Puritans; like moral, ethical, and religious aspects. 

 

4. Puritan: Refers to members of Protestant group that started around 1560, that wanted to “purify” the Church of England.  They wanted to return to simpler worship and church organization like in the New Testament. Religion was an inner personal experience for them. They were persecuted, some were put in jail and whipped, or their noses were slit and their ears lopped off. Some Puritans moved to Holland, but feared they would lose their identity as protestants, so led by WIlliam Bradford they left for the New World in 1620.

The Age of reason began in Europe with philosophers and scientists in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.  They called themselves rationalists, who were a group of people that believed that human beings can arrive at truth by using reason rather than things like religious faith.  They believed that God’s special gift to humanity was reason.  The idea of experimenting and scientific tinkering were already thriving in the American colonies.  Sir Isaac Newton was a rationalist.

Two girls began having fits and the doctor diagnosed it as bewitchment. 

2 unpopular women and a slave were the first accused of witchcraft

Tituba confessed in hopes of saving her life, this led to the witch hunt because she convinced them that there were more witches.

Cotton Mather's thought this meant that this meant Massachusetts was holy because the devil was targeting them. Wanted witches to face severe punishment. 

Several hundred people were accused and 19 were hanged. 

Causes may have been mass hysteria, a restricted government, or a strict society. 

Mostly women between their 40 and 60 were accused, independent, and posed a threat to men

11. Deism are basically Good?