Unit

1
EQ How can literature portray the culture and
beliefs of Early America?

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• The Crucible

2
What is a Puritan?

• Rebels or Revolutionaries?
• Puritans purify the Church of England
• Catholic influences
• Absolutist monarchy has complete control over
  all
• Sepratists
• William Bradford/Mayflower
• Plymouth Colony Massachusetts Bay Colony

3
Puritan Beliefs/Calvinism

• Original Sin
• Predestination
• Elect/Limited Atonement
• Bible
• Unregenerate/Natural Man

4
Puritan Beliefs continued.

• Theocracy
• Covenant
• Puritan Ethic
• New England Primer

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5
Taboo for Puritans

• Dancing (depending on type)
• Reading Fiction
• Drinking permissible/Being drunk was not
• Laziness

6
Revival and Intolerance

• Great Awakening
• Jonathan Edwards
• Cotton Mather
• Salem Witch Trials
• Clip on Salem with trials
• Record 3 new facts learned after watching clip
• 1)
• 2)
• 3)

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The Crucible By Arthur Miller

• Senator McCarthy
• crucible
• Propaganda
• Movie Clip

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