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His fascinating journals provide a vivid record of the most significant journeys of his time
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One of the most influential writings which faithfully captured the area's natural resources, the ways of life of the Native Americans, and the potential for building a successful colony
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The French and Dutch also sent some explorers including Samuel de Champlain, he wrote vivid accounts of New England and the Iroquois.
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Jamestown Colony
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The first enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown
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Including William Bradford, longtime governor of Plymouth and
John Winthrop Sr., who served as a governor of Massachusetts
They reflected upon what they saw as their role in God's plan for a better society -
The first book that was issued to North American colonies
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Anne Bradstreet wrote a book of poetry called The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America. It was the first book published by a North American woman
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Mary Rowlandson published this book to tell about her captivity at the hands of Algonquian Indians
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There was a burst of intellectual energy taking place in Europe
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Isaac Newton published his work, it's considered to be the most important work of the Scientific Revolution
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Cotton Mather published this in defense of the Salem witch trials
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The first American newspaper that is established
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Jonathan Swift published his book
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A new wave of religious enthusiasm began to rise.
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About two thousand pamphlets were published in about 20 years
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she wrote of the "natural rights' of African-Americans and pointed out the discrepancy between the colonists' "cry for freedom" and their enslavement of fellow human beings
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He presented a proposal to organize a volunteer company of cavalry or infantry in every Virginia county.
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The colonies fought and defeated one of the greatest military powers on earth to turn their declaration into a reality
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The pamphlet helped propel the colonists to revolution
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He also wrote pamphlets, but his greatest contribution to American government was the Declaration of Independence
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The British were defeated at Yorktown, ending the American Revolution
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Four months later Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington emerged with perhaps the country's most important piece of writing
