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Christopher colombus, one of the first explorers to learn of america, wrote inspiring journals about his discovery of the new world.
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Thomas Harriot wrote about the life and culture of the native indians, as well about the resources and potential uses for that land that would become Virginia
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William Wood came to America as one of the first colonists and described in writing of the people and the enviroment.
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Puritan's wished to have a more poetic form of psalms, and converted the psalms into hymns in which they could sing and have published.
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Anne Bradstreet wrote The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up In America and was the first woman to have her book published in America.
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Many documents containing the ideals of lebirty and justice flourish, inspiring many to write or to fight for those rights.
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A popular book by the name, the selling of joseph, became published, expressing anti slavery
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The first american newspaper, the boston newpaper, is established
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Benjamin Franklin publishes "do good" papers
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Franklin purchases and publishes the Pennsylvania Gazette, which later becomes The Saturday Evening Post.
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A great religous movement begins, sweeping in much inspiring religous literature
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patrick henry wrote, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
truly inspiring americans and future americans to believe in the american ideals and to persue liberty -
Thomas Paine's widely read pamphlet, common sense, passionately argue the case for independence
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Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and other great minds write this to end ties with the mother country, and is still today one of the most signifacant documents in all of american history.
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The constution, a article of writitng the devised the build of american government, was accepted, giving america an official government and is still the document used to organize the governement.
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The sovereignty and goodness of god, an account of the captivity of Mary Rowlandson by algonquian indians is published
