Timeline TUESDAY by Jolie Sprik (Student)

Native Americans

jsprik — 2025-09-16 15:54:46 UTC

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

2200 B.C. to 1600 A.D.

1607—Early settlement at Jamestown

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.

START

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PRESENT DAY

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Native American : Samson Occom (Mohegan)

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His most famous work, "A Short Narrative of My Life,"

Native American : FACT ONE

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The first native American literary texts were offered orally,

PERIOD NAME: FACT 2

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they often wrote to other people by hieroglyphic and pictographic writings

Columbus came to America

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1492

END OF THE PERIOD

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Pocahontas was born

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1595

Puritanism and Early Settlement of First "American" colonies

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1600-1800

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.

Puritanism and Early Settlement of First "American" colonies

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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"

Puritanism and Early Settlement of First "American" colonies : fact one

jsprik — 2025-11-04 15:58:55 UTC

the puritans came from 2 churches splitting in England

Puritanism and Early Settlement of First "American" colonies : fact two

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the puritans believed that they should take out all practices that were not directly from the bible

1507

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Early Settlement of the first American colonies - Jamestown

1692

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Salem Witch Trials

1741

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

this is the end of this time period

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beginning of a new time period

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Rationalism

jsprik — 2026-02-19 21:20:42 UTC

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

beginning of the rational era

jsprik — 2026-02-19 22:07:02 UTC

rationalism authors and works

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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

Fact #1

jsprik — 2026-02-19 22:12:48 UTC

René Descartes, a French philosopher, is often considered the father of modern rationalism. His famous statement, "Cogito, ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am), underscores the importance of reason

Fact #2

jsprik — 2026-02-19 22:16:52 UTC

Rationalism summed up the implied metaphysical rationalism in the words "All is number".

1607 Early Settlement—Jamestown

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1775-1783 Revolutionary War

jsprik — 2026-02-19 22:19:35 UTC

end of the era

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beginning of the revolutionary war

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revolutionary war 1775-1783

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revolutionary war authors and works

jsprik — 2026-02-19 22:28:01 UTC

enjamin 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

Fact #1

jsprik — 2026-02-19 22:29:27 UTC

The American Revolutionary War “officially” started on April 19, 1775 at the battle of Concord and Lexington.

Fact #2

jsprik — 2026-02-19 22:30:17 UTC

The Continental Congress first met on September 9th, 1774

1775-1783 Revolutionary War

jsprik — 2026-02-19 22:30:33 UTC

end of the era

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start here

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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

transcendentalism authors and works

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

—Nature

—"Self-Reliance"

Henry David Thoreau

—Walden

—Life in the Woods

Louisa May Alcott

—Little Women

Fact #1

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Transcendentalism began in the 1830s as a reaction against the intellectualism and materialism of the time.

Fact #2

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The movement was heavily influenced by Romanticism, especially the works of German and British writers.

1840-1860

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Transcendentalism

end of the era

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beginning of the romanticism era

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romanticism

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1. Valued feeling, intuition, idealism, and inductive reasoning.

2. Placed faith in inner experience and the power of the imagination.

3. Shunned the artificiality of civilization and sought unspoiled nature as a path to spirituality.

4. Championed individual freedom and the worth of the individual

5. Saw poetry as the highest expression of the imagination

6. Dark Romantics: used dark and supernatural themes/settings (Gothic style)

romanticism authors and works

jsprik — 2026-02-20 16:16:48 UTC

Washington Irving
—"Rip van Winkle"

Emily Dickinson
—poetry

Walt Whitman
—Leaves of Grass

Edgar Allan Poe
—"The Raven"

Nathaniel Hawthorne
—The Scarlet Letter

Fact #1

jsprik — 2026-02-20 16:18:48 UTC

Romanticism emphasized intense emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience

Fact #2

jsprik — 2026-02-20 16:19:39 UTC

Nature, especially its wild and untamed aspects, was a central theme in Romantic art and literature.

The War of 1812

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1812-1815

California Gold Rush

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1848

end of the era

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fact #1 about the renaissance literature

jsprik — 2026-02-20 16:27:04 UTC

As this era was marked as a time of war, other issues such as ignorance, famine, and the Black Death pandemic added to the period’s dreary title.

Fact #2 about the renaissance literature

jsprik — 2026-02-20 16:27:33 UTC

In addition to being seen as one of the most significant periods in world history, the Renaissance is also regarded as one of the first influential turning points that occurred.