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Columbus's adventures opened a door to a century of Spanish expeditions in the Americas.
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"A brief and true Report of the New Found Land of Virginia," by Thomas Harriot, which faithfully captured the area's natural resources, the way of life of the Native Americans, and the potential for buildings a successful colony. It was publisheed in 1588 and was accompanied by illustrations that helped thousands upon thousands of English readers from their first clear picture of North America.
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Puritans were a group of English Protestants who had sought to "purify" the Church of England and return to simplier ways of worshiping.
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The french and Dutch sent exployers such as Samuel De Champlain, the "Father of New France," who in the early 1600s wrote vivid accounts of New England and the Iroquois.
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The first permanent colony was established at jamestown in 1607
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John Withrop wrote in 1630 that " We must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us."
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From Massachusetts Bay Colony nothed that the Native Americans "took the first ship they saw for a walking island, the mast to be a tree, the sail white clouds."
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the first book issued in the north American colonies was the Bay Psalm Book in 1640, in which the Bible's psalm were rewritten to fit the rhythms of familiar Puritan hymns.
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Poetry book "The Truth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650), was the first work by a North American women to be published.
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Both Enlightenment ideals and Puritan values contributed to the country's thirst for independence.
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English colonies stretched all along the atlantic coast.
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France allied with a number of Native American groups to drive the british out of North America
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Enlightenment ideals prompted action and gave colonists a philosophical footing for their revolution. "i know not what course others may take, " PATRICK HENRY thuundered to the delegates at the second Virginia Convention in 1775, "but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
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the colonies declared themselves to be "free and independent" in 1776 and fought and defeated one of the greatest military powers on earth to turn their declaration into a reality,
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about 2,000 pamohlets were published
