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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Encounters and Foundations
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Puritan Migration
When the Puritans came over from England after getting a lot of criticism. When they came over they didnt accept any other religion and excommunicated anyone who questioned their religion. -
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreets "Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, By a Gentlewoman of Those Parts" is the fisrt book written by a woman that is published in America. -
Smallpox Epidemic in Boston
This was an epidemic that hit Boston between April and December of the year 1721. During the time of the epidemic it killed 844 people in Boston which was close to three quarters of the deaths of the population of the city at that time. Cotton Mather felt it was "the worst case of smallpox of all time" -
Jonathan Edwards delivers "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Sermon preached by Jonathon Edwards to his church in Enfield. Theis sermon was his most famous work and was full of descriptions of how "real" Hell was.
