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| What other weapons did they use to fight? |
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| Speeches, poems, songs, essays, etc. |
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| Puritan different from south? |
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| They thought that it was all about God |
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| Y was benjamin franklin a symbol of america? |
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| He proved that through hard work and dedication you can acccomplish anything. |
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| short statement that contains "nugget of wisdom" |
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| indirect reference to something else |
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| something to put on someones tombstone to honor them |
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| electon, divine sanction, and high purpose |
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| the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence |
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| a crazed witch hunt started by puritan teenage girls |
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| when did the romantic period take place? |
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| main elements of romantic literature? |
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Love of Nature
Love of the Common Man
The Supernatural
Nationalism
Heroism
Strange and Far-away Places |
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| The first poet and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. Her first volume of poetry was The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, published in 1650. |
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a Christian preacher and theologian. Edwards "is widely acknowledged to be America's most important and original philosophical theologian," and one of America's greatest intellectuals.
Born: October 5, 1703, East Windsor
Died: March 22, 1758, Princeton |
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an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Bathory, Prince of Transylvania and his friend Mózes Székely.
Born: January 1580, Willoughby
Died: June 21, 1631 |
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an English Separatist leader of settlers at Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. He served as governor for over 30 years after the previous governor, John Carver died. His journal was published as Of Plymouth Plantation
Born: March 19, 1590, Austerfield
Died: May 9, 1657, Plymouth |
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one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor
Born: January 17, 1706, Boston
Died: April 17, 1790, Philadelphia |
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an attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia in the 1770s
Born: May 29, 1736, Hanover County
Died: June 6, 1799, Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial |
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an English-American political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary.
Born: January 29, 1737, Thetford
Died: June 8, 1809, New York City |
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an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States.
Born: April 13, 1743, Albemarle County
Died: July 4, 1826, Charlottesville |
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a free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland to a free African-American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little formal education and was largely self-taught.
Born: November 9, 1731, Baltimore County
Died: October 9, 1806, Baltimore County |
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| Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecouer |
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a French-American writer. He was born in Caen, Normandy, France, to the Comte and Comtesse de Crèvecœur.
Born: December 31, 1735, Caen
Died: November 12, 1813, Sarcelles |
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the first African-American poet and first African-American woman to publish a book. Born in Senegambia, she was sold into slavery at the age of 7 or 8 and transported to North America.
Born: 1753, West Africa
Died: December 5, 1784, Boston |
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an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century.
Born: April 3, 1783, Manhattan
Died: November 28, 1859, Sunnyside |
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a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature.
Born: September 15, 1789, Burlington
Died: September 14, 1851, Cooperstown |
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an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.
Born: January 19, 1809, Boston
Died: October 7, 1849, Baltimore |
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