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85 Cards in this Set
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puritans believed
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total depravity
limited atonement irresistible grace perserverance predestination |
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1492
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columbus discovers america
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1513
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balboa reaches the pacific
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1593-42
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desoto explores teh mississippi river region
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1607
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jamestown founded
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1619
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first africans brought to the english colonies
house of burgesses meets for the first time |
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1620
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mayflower compact
plymouth settled |
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1630
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massachusetts bay colonyfounded at salem
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1636
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harvard, the first college in america, founded
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1639
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first printing press in america
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1770
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boston massacre
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1775-83
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revolutionary war
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1775
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battle of lexington and concord
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1776
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declaration of independence
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1781
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cornwallis surrenders to washington at yorktown
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1788
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ratificatioin of the constitution
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1789
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george washington inaugurated as first us president in new york city
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bay psalm book
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first book publised in america
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1611
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king james bible
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the day of doom
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wigglesworth
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1740's
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the great awakening
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a true revelation of virginia
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john smith
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the general history of virginia, new england, and the summer isles
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john smith
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paraphrase
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putting something in your own words
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scrooby congregation
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not happy witht he church of england
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shallop
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companion boat
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speedwell
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pilgrim ship that leaked and didnt make it to the new world
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of plymouth plantation
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bradford
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the tenth muse lately sprung up in america
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bradstreet
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taylor
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taught in westfield mass
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prepatory meditations
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taylor
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knight
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schoolteacher, business woman
took a trip from boston to new york and back- 5 months |
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byrd
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born in va
lawyer the royal society inherited westover (26000 acres) |
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the history of the dividing line
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byrd
line between va and nc |
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edwards
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puritan minister
yale at 13 preached in northampton mass during great awakening his sermons scared people dismissed from the church |
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"of insects"
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edwards
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freedom of the will
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edwards
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the nature of true virtue
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edwards
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married sarah pierrepont
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edwards
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edwards compares Gods wrath to
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storm clouds
waters behind a dam bow and arrow |
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theme
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general idea of insight
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tone
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attitude twoard subject
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middle passage
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1600s-1900s 12 million africans 2 million died
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the interesting narrative fo the life of olaudah equiano, or gustavus vassa, the african
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equiano
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the death of general wolfe
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benjamin west
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the power of sympathy
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brwon
first american novel |
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freneau
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poet of the revolution
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the british prison ship
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freneau
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a poem on the glory of america
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freneau
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franklin
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"frist american"
philly printer 1st circulating library university of pennsylvania "join or die" cartoons 1st postmaster general assisted w/ dec. of in., const. degrees- yale and harvard english royal academy- gold medal |
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poor richards almanack
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franklin
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arduous
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difficult
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virtues
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tempreance
silence *order* resolution frugality industry sincerity justice moderation cleanliness tranquility chasity humility |
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aphorism
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a terse pointed statement expresssing some wise or clever observation about life
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pen name- richard saunders
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franklin
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henry
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didnt use a written speech
lawyer house of burgesses governer of va |
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martial
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warlike
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allusion
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reference made for the sake of comparison
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conceit
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an extended comparison between 2 startingly different things
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connotation
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suggested feeling or attitude
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1740's
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the great awakening
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a true revelation of virginia
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john smith
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the general history of virginia, new england, and the summer isles
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john smith
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paraphrase
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putting something in your own words
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scrooby congregation
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not happy witht he church of england
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shallop
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companion boat
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speedwell
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pilgrim ship that leaked and didnt make it to the new world
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of plymouth plantation
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bradford
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the tenth muse lately sprung up in america
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bradstreet
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taylor
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taught in westfield mass
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common sense
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paine
most important pamplet in america |
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the crisis
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paine
"these are the times that try men's souls" |
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rhetorical question
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answers are obvious
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simile
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figure of speech that compare 2 different things using like or as
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tone
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attitude the writer takes toward a subject
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jefferson
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first sec of state
3rd pres college of william and mary house of bugesses statesman planned the buildings of univ of va collected books went to the library of congress |
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commitee for declaration of independence writing
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adams, franklin, livingston, sherman, jefferson
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english king during the revolutionary war
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george III
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thomas jefferson's epitaph
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here was buried thomas jefferson,
author of the declaration of independence, of the staute of virginia for religious freedom, and father of the univ of va |
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july 4 1826
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john adams and thomas jefferson died
50th anniversary of the signing of the dec of in |
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declaration of independence (painting)
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trumbull
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paintings of jefferson and washington
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trumbull
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denotation
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literal meaning
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jean de crevecoeur
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"j. hector st john"
immigrant was neutral in the war and sent to prison |
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letters from and american farmer
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jean de crevecouer
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