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Native Americans writing way and define |
Didactic- literature with an aim to teach |
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Explores writing way and define |
Utilitarian- useful literature that explorers used to explain the new world |
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Settlers writing way and define |
Puritan plain style- emphasized uncomplicated sentences and common speech with no elaborate imagery or figures of speech |
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Revolutionaries writing way and define |
Propaganda- writing that's used to help your cause or hurt someone else's cause |
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Tenets of Puritanism Name at least 5 |
1. Humans are inherently evil 2. Humans exist solely for god's will 3. Bibles sole expression of gods will 4. Government was based on the word of God 5. Wealth and success are evidents of gods grace 6. God is extremely active in human affairs but so is the devil 7. Personal salvation depends solely on the grace of God |
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How many years was Bradford governer of the Plymouth colony |
30 |
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What compact did Bradford help craft and what was it also called |
Mayflower Compact, first US Constitution |
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What age did Bradford join religious crusade |
12 |
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What did Bradford help finance and plan |
The voyage to the Americas on the mayflower |
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Edwards sermons helped trigger what |
The great awakening |
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When was Edwards fired and for what |
1750 for being to extreme |
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What university did Edward become president of |
Princeton university |
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What was Bradford effective at forging with the Native American |
Alliances |
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Define tenet |
Principle, belief or doctrine that's generally held to be true |
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Define sermon |
Speech that is given from the pulpit in a house of worship |
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Name the 4 elements of effective oratory |
1. Persuasive, inspiring to take action 2. Appeals to emotions (feat) 3. Addresses the needs and concerns of the audience 4.includes expressive and rythmic language |
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What was Jonathan Edwards considered |
Americas greatest religious thinker and The Last Puritan |
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What age did Edwards go to Yale university |
12 |
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At what age did Bradford join the religious crusade |
12 |
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What did Equiano do to have such a remarkable life |
he was a soldier, sailor, northpole explorer |
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What powerful testimony did Equiano leave |
the brutality of enslavement that became a new genre, the slave narrative |
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In 1766 after 21 years as a slave what did Equiano do |
bought his freedom, moved to london, and launched his buisness career |
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What did Equiano life story expose the cruelity of |
slave trade and made him an important public figure |
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Identify 2 atrocities that Equiano experienced |
1. families being separated 2. sailors flogged their own men to death 3. the terrible conditions below deck (smell) 4. slaves jumping overboard to commit suicide 5. extra fish thrown overboard instead of being given to the slaves |
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Why was Equiano's story so powerful |
it was 1st person and it opened the eyes of the ignornant white people |
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When was the Age of Reason/Rationalism/Enlightenment |
1750-1800 |
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Name the 7 beliefs during the age of reason |
1. belief in the human capacity to reason 2. humans can arrive at truth independence of past knowledge 3. Deism= god is a clockworker 4. natural laws govern the world and mankind 5. people are basically good, not evil 6. you can bet serve god by serving mankind 7. believed in human progress and perfectibility |
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What was patrick henry known as |
known as the most powerful SPEAKER of the american revolution |
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Patrick Henry was the earliest ______ of ________ in the american colonies |
the earlist oppoent of British rule in the american colonies
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What age did Patrick Henry go out on his own |
15 |
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Who taught himself law and was admitted to the bar at age 24 |
Patrick Henry |
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Who served several terms as governer and state legislator for virginia |
Patrick Henry |
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Who does Pres Washington offer secretary of state and supreme court justice, and what is his response |
Patrick Henry declines because he never wanted a strong central govt |
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Define Persuasion |
writing or speech meant to get listeners tp think or act in a different way |
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What are the 4 rules to persuasion |
1. appeals to emotion or reason 2. offers opinions 3. supports opinions with facts 4. urges action |
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How does Patrick Henry give his opinion in his speech? |
He believes that they need to "fight for freedom" |
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How does Patrick Henry support his opinion with facts in his speech? |
He talks about all the petitions and protests they have tried to get freedom |
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How does Patrick Henry appeal to the audiences emotions in his speech? |
"give me liberty or give me death" |
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How does Patrick Henry give logical reason in his speech? |
He says that they need to "judge the future with the past". Talking about how the King hasn't done anything for them |
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How does Patrick Henry urge action in his speech?
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He wants to declare the support of Virginia to the Declaration of Independence |
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Who was the 1st Secretary of State, 2nd Vice President, and the 3rd President |
Thomas Jefferson |
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Who bought the Louisiana Territory, doubling the country? |
Thomas Jefferson |
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Who was educated at the College of William and Mary ? |
Thomas Jefferson |
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Who designed his own home and what did he call it? |
Thomas Jefferson, Monticello |
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Who was the founder of the University of Virginia |
Thomas Jefferson |
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Who died on July 4, 1826 and what anniversery was it on ? |
Thomas Jefferson, 50th anniversery of the signing of the Declaration of Independence |
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"We hold these truths to be self evident" 5 of them |
1. let all men be equal 2. we are endowned by our creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness 3. Governments are instituted among men, they exist to serve us and secure these rights 4. If government become destructive of these rights, the people have the right to alter or abolish it 5. Change in govt should never be in light or transient causes |
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When Thomas Jefferson wrote The List of Grievances he used what form ? "He has........" "He has........" |
Parallelism |
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Who was known the be the most persuasive WRITER in the revolution |
Thomas Paine |
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Who wrote a 50 page pamphlet that attacked the injustices of hereditary rule, called Common Sense? |
Thomas Paine |
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Who addressed the common men unlike other writers |
Thomas Paine |
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Who's last piece of work attacked organized religions which alienated most of his supports, called The Age of Reason |
Thomas Paine |
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Who's essay was ordered by General Washington to be read to the soldiers before they attacked the Hessians, called The Crisis |
Thomas Paine |
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Who was the oldest founding father that helped draft the declaration of independence |
Benjamin Franklin |
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Who embodied the new nation and became its first celebrity |
Benjamin Franklin |
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Born as the youngest of 15 children? |
Benjamin Franklin
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Who prospered his own printing buisness, running the Pennsylvania Gazette |
Benjamin Franklin
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Started 1st public library and fire department |
Benjamin Franklin
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Who founded the University of Pennsylvania |
Benjamin Franklin
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Credited for making glasses |
Benjamin Franklin
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5 virtues of Franklin's autobiography |
Silence Order Industry Sincerity Humility |
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Explain the speckled axe story in Ben F autobiography |
You just have to be the best you and that's all, you don't have to be perfect. The axe couldn't become perfectly sharp but it was the best it was going to get. |
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Define Aphorism |
short witty saying with a message |
