Puritanism Paper “I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem—vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem‚ but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom‚ and common vengeance writes the law!” (Miller’s The Crucible Act II‚ Pg. 77). The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play that revolves around the Salem witch hunts‚ which occurred during the late 17th century. The play opens in Salem‚ Massachusetts during 1692 with a group of girls who are ill‚ with the symptoms
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Chesapeake region by 1700. Equality-oriented and deeply religious Puritans settled the rocky‚ unfertile New England region. The first settlement within New England was Plymouth in 1620‚ and its original inhabitants were English Puritans who sought refuge from the King of England. From the beginning‚ the Puritan settlers in Plymouth observed that the land proved inhospitable to farming. This led the settlers to find other ways of making money‚ such as trade‚ fishing‚ and lumber. The lack of dependence
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due to scarcity of women/families & high death rate 2. Women in Chesapeake Society had bargaining power but were vulnerable 3. Social Hierarchy in Chesapeake: plantation gentry‚ yeoman farmers‚ indentured servants‚ slaves 4. Social mobility was very limited due to emergence of American-born plantation aristocracy C. African Slaves 1. Slaves imported due to a “need” for labor 2. Originally Africans were treated as indentured servants; But by 1700‚ slavery was
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Trade and its Abolition 16th Century 1562 1564-65 1567 1607 1618 1619 1623 1625 1626 1649 1655 1655 1656 1657 1660s 1672 1675 1668 1683 1685-86 1690 1692 1698 1699 1702-13 1727 Sir John Hawkins‚ backed by Gonson and other London merchants‚ leaves Plymouth with three ships‚ making him the first English slave trader. He takes 300 Africans and trades them with the Spanish and Portuguese for sugar‚ hides‚ spices and pearls Backed by Queen Elizabeth I‚ Hawkins makes his second slavery voyage trading 500
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experiences of history. What if you were able to have an experience like these and learn more about a different culture. Following the stories of "My Sojourn in the Lands of My Ancestors"‚ "My Sojourn in the Lands of My Ancestors"‚ and "Of Plymouth Plantation"‚ you can learn the "do"s and "don’t"s of having a cross-cultural experience. In "My Sojourn in the Lands of My Ancestors"‚ Maya Angelou writes about her experience of traveling to Africa and meeting the tribe that her ancestors belonged
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really celebrate on what we now regard as the first Thanksgiving in Plymouth‚ Massachusetts‚ in 1621? Is our celebration and traditional menu truly akin to that enjoyed by the Pilgrims and their Wampanoag Indian guests? The only written record of the famous meal tells us that the harvest celebration lasted three days and included deer and wildfowl. Beyond that‚ culinary historians such as Kathleen Curtin at Plymouth Plantation in Massachusetts rely on period cookbooks and journals‚ Wampanoag oral
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American Literature Test Terms Definitions Colonial New England period is also known as what? Puritan Era When was Jamestown established? 1607 When did the Separatists come to the New World? 1620 When did the Puritans come to America? 1630 When the Puritans came to America‚ where did they land? Massachusetts Bay What are the literary characteristics of the Colonial New England period? Unadorned‚ simple‚ useful‚ natural‚ utalitarian‚ didactic‚ and Biblical What are the Genres
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In William Bradford’s Chronicle “Of Plymouth Plantation” (1606-1646) and Iroquois’ Creation Myth “The World on the Turtle’s Back” (2012)‚ they showed that it takes guts and the confidence to become an explorer of the unknown. Can curiosity lead you to your thinking of death but changes the thinking of being the most amazing thing happened to you in life? Even with the risks of starvation‚ dehydration‚ disease‚ and possibly death‚ would you still go and explore the unknown? An explorer seeks the unknown
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two different guys but at the same time accomplished many things throughout their lives. They were similar in a couple ways but there were also things that distinguish them. Both‚ John Smith’s persuasive pamphlet and William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation present a different picture of the same pre-colonial land of New England. In addition‚ they established colonies and through their writings‚ they hoped to attract more settlers with similar cases. Some things they had in common was that they
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colonies economies and diet allowing them to grow and flourish and making them an important aspect of "American" culture (Kennedy‚ Cohen‚ and Bailey 15). Additionally‚ Native Americans shared in the celebration of the first Thanksgiving with the Plymouth pilgrims (Kennedy‚ Cohen‚ and Bailey 52)‚ a holiday still important and beloved today. Later interactions between the Native Americans and Colonists were mainly hostile‚ as a result of the European’s insatiable land-lust‚ evident in such conflicts
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