Unit One Review
David
Marcus
Anthony
Native Americans
• The original people who
lived in America and
had rich oral tradition
Native Americans
• Onondaga-NY state, part of Iroquoian
Confederacy
• Modoc- Oregon and Northern CA., Forced on
reservations
• Navajo-Largest Indian nation in U.S., Southwest
• Iroquois- NE U.S., part of the Iroquoian
Confederacy
Origin Myths
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Mainly included nature
Animals
How things are created
Why things are the way they are
Origins
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Onondaga- “Earth on Turtle’s Back”
Modoc- “When the Grizzlies Walked Upright”
Navajo- “The Navajo Origin Legend”
Iroquois- “The Iroquois Constitution”
Summary of Each
1.Wife fell down with seeds, muskrat gets dirt,
plant on the turtle’s back, and earth grows.
2.Grizzly Bears are related, can’t kill them.
3. Navajo made out of corn, feathers, wind,
and buckskins.
4. 5 tribes come together and make peace.
Plant tree and live in harmony.
Chris Columbus
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1492
Financed by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand
Landed in Bahamas, actually looking for India
Wrote to impress
Good Guy
John Smith
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Egotist
Thought natives were “savages” and “winches”
Fancied himself
President for 2 years
Cared about himself over others
Jamestown, VA
William Bradford
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Governor for 31 years
Plymouth, MA
Close to Native Americans
Puritan Plain Style
Solved Problems
Comparisons
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Both led and established colonies
Wrote books
Born in England
Wanted to attract new settlers
Eqiuano
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Straight out of Africa
Came over on slave ships
Former prince
Many liberties, because he was sick
“Flying Fish”
Pooped on board
Fell in poop
Hard to breathe
Anne Bradstreet
• Dangerous
• Wrote “My Dear and Loving Husband”
• Didn’t follow Puritan ways
Edward Taylor
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“Huswifery”
Wrote of everyday tasks in making clothing
Guidance from God
Only two stanzas of work published while alive
Jonathan Edwards
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Wanted others to seek salvation
Scared of his sermons, very powerful
Preached for hours, very monotone
Leader of the Great Awakening
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
6 hour sermon, struck fear into listeners
Poems Contrasted
• Bradstreet’s poem was about her love for her
husband who was overseas
• She longed for his love
• Taylor’s poem was about God
• His poem was more acceptable to his peers