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• Although a family could move from Massachusetts to Virginia or • from South Carolina to Pennsylvania, without major readjustment, • distinctions between individual colonies were marked. They • were even more so between the three regional groupings of colonies
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The U.S. is a republic with two legislative houses; its head of state and government is the officially United States of AmericaFederal republic, North America. It comprises 48 contiguous states occupying president. The territory was originally inhabited for several thousand years by numerous American Indian peoples who had probably emigrated from Asia. European exploration and settlement from the 16th century began displacement of the Indians. The first permanent European settlement, by the Spanish, was at Saint Augustine, Fla., in 1565; the British settled Jamestown, Va. (1607); Plymouth, Mass. (1620); Maryland (1634); and Pennsylvania (1681). The British took New York, New Jersey, and Delaware from the Dutch in 1664, a year after the Carolinas had been granted to British noblemen. The British defeat of the French in 1763 (see French and Indian War) assured British political control over its 13 colonies. Political unrest caused by British colonial policy culminated in the American Revolution (1775–83) and the Declaration of Independence (1776). The U.S. was first organized under the Articles of Confederation (1781), then finally under the Constitution (1787) as a federal republic. Boundaries extended west to the Mississippi River, excluding Spanish Florida

Puritanism: In the 16th and 17th century, a movement for religious reform in the Church of England that had a profound influence on the social, political, ethical, and theological ideas of England and America Puritan (John Milton)----purify----persecution-puritan migration (Mayflower)----American (New World—church-university--hospital) American Puritanism: also called Calvinism
Puritan Doctrines
Puritan beliefs: 1. First covenant: God and Adam, ―original sin‖; 2. Second covenant: God and Abraham, ―grace‖ ―original sin‖ and ―grace‖ are two most important premises in Puritanism. Puritan beliefs helped shape the colonial life. Puritanism helped shape the colonial literature.
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Brief Introduction of the American Literature History
1. The Colonial Period (1607-End of the 18th C) 2. The Romantic Period (19th C-1865) 3. The Age of Realism (1865-1918) 4. The Modern Period (1918-1945) 5. The Postwar Period (1945- )
regarded as one of the American authors writing in the Modernist tradition of the 1920s)
The Modern Period (19181945)
The 1920s African American literature (Harlem Renaissance) Langston Hughes The 1930s Left or socialist-oriented writers: John Dos Passos and John Steinbeck
Henry David Thoreau Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne Herman Melville
The Age of Realism (18651918)
William Dean Howells Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn;
Frank Norris
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• This chapter will trace the historical growth of the United States and examine how the country has developed into its present stage within such a short period of time.
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•E. The War of 1812 •F. Rapid economic
expansion •G. Andrew Jackson-the first president born into a poor family and born in the West •H. Growing tensions and injustices • Slavery became the distinctive badge that demarcated two rival regions.
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V. Nation Building
V. Nation Building
•A. George Washington •B. Political parties—the
Federalists and the Democratic Republicans (Hamilton and Jefferson) •C. John Adams: the Alien and Sedition Acts— permitted the deportation or arrest of “dangerous” aliens •D. Thomas Jefferson: Louisiana Purchase
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Wars between Britain and France