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| when proper nouns are extended to refer to the generic sense of all nouns |
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language of the sailors
->acrolect-superior (portuguese)
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Where Pennsylvania got its name
means: "Penn's Woods" in latin
William Penn's dad, Admiral Willam Penn, was owed something and so the people gave his son the land of Jersey which is now known as Pennsylvania :) |
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| Massachusetts Bay Company |
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| All I know is that the secretary is Ann Bradstreet's husband, Samuel Bradstreet |
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| Shifted government to allow all immigrants 50 acres of land to work as they saw fit |
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Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Francis Drake, Sir John Hopkins, Richard Grenvile
Looked for unclaimed territory on the North American Coast |
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| 200 colonists led by John Yeamans-from Barbados to Ashley River-->found Charles Town |
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| Navigators hired by West Country Men to travel to the lands that were unclaimed and bring back an account of what they saw; they returned after 6 months of travelling and described it as "Paradise" |
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| 2 printer cousins who printed Amadas and Barlowe's account of the unclaimed land; they described the New World as Paradise |
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| Along with Irishmen, he transported African workers from the British Isles, to Barbados, from there to SC and GA |
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| seashells which were useless in Mass./English Society, traded w/ Indian trappers from Beaver Pelts. Bay colony paid off debts to Mother England |
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| Leader of the 2nd wave of Puritans who went to Massachusett's Bay |
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| the most important prose writer aside from Benjamin Franklin |
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| Published the Sotweed Factor: Ora Voyage to Maryland; bought tobacco for sale to help his father |
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| described the hardships of the pilgrims |
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| Poetry was unknown until the 1930s |
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| America's 1st great thinker & world citizen; supported Webster because he had already tried to change the spelling system himself; he was a printer and could get rich |
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| 1st truly great American Poet; her dad had access to the Earl voluminous library and he had her tutored in various languages, taught her dance, and extra stuff; her husband, Samuel, was the Secretary of the Mass. Bay Colony |
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| most popular & widely read of the New England Poets |
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| represents the state of the art in Early Colonial America & the style least consistent with modern wage |
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| feature retained from Old English and Middle English orthography |
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| Virginia Declaration of Rights |
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| unalienable or inherent Rights "All men are by nature equally free" |
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| took the Virginia Declaration of Rights' belief that all men are created equal and put it in our Declaration of Independence |
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| Developed a spelling book and gave it to the kids because older people were set in their ways and "Our Children Are Our Future" |
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| a dictionary that had a blue cover... :D |
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| Picked up the idea but did not have much suppport on the American Academy |
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| got the idea that we should have an American Academy |
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| a balanced way of making up new words-as new things arrive, Americans will create some new words to fit them |
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| a folk song composed by southern troops of the Civil War; writer is: A. Pindar |
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| wrote his inflammatory pamphlet Common Sense and various issues of The American Crisis |
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| (portmanteau words) words which are formed from the morphemes of 2 separate words blended together: gerrymander; squiggle; frazzle; squirt;squirt |
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