Potts The Colonial Period in American Literature

The Colonial Period in American concentrated on

• religion, economic growth, and framing

• Native Americans and Thanksgiving, exploring

• witch trails, sermons and church attendance

Native American Literature was not recognized as literature until

• Native Americans protested

• the 1800s

• Until John Proctor introduced it at a meeting

Native Americans literature had all of the following, except

• nature and creation myths

• Cyclical world view

• Figurative langage, poems and songs

• sermons and hunting pamphlets

The Native American myths, legends, songs and narrative were passed down in

• scrolls

• cave art and drawing

• chants

• orally

The first Puritan colonists wrote mostly diaries and histories, which expressed the connections between God and their everyday lives and all of the following except

• Sought to purify the church of England

• Saw religion as a personal, inner experience.

• Believed in original sin and “elect” who would be saved.

• Believed you had to suffer to follow Christ

Puritan Moral and Standards consisted of

• Self control, church standards, moderation, good works

• Self control, chastity, the law of natural selection

• Theocracy, purifying the church, self monitoring

• All of the above

Puritan church standards were

• Members had to show evidence of living like a Christian

• Required a public testimony

• A person not converted was considered unregenerate

• All of the above

The Southern Colonials were mainly concerned with:

• Land

• Money

• Good looking natives

• Becoming missionaries

The two Southern Colonials we have studied include:

• William Bradford

• William Byrd

• Maya Angelou

• Mary Rowlandson

• Cabeza de Vaca

Is the following quote representative of a Southern Colonial or a Puritan?

"The Native American religion, [as told by Bearskin] contained...the three great articles of natural religion: the belief of a god, the moral distinction between good and evil, and the expectation of rewards and punishments in another world...in three generations" any differences could be "blanched" (134 and 133).

• Southern Colonial

• Puritan

• Slave

• Northern Colonial