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Christopher Columbus sailed to America
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One of the most influential writings was "A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virignia" by Thomas Harriot It was published this year
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Samuel De Champlain the "Father of New France," who wrote vivid accounts of New England and the Iroquois.
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The first permanent colony was established in Jamestown
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John Winthrop wrote "we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us." He wrote this because the Puritans settlers believed themselves chosen by God to create a new order in America
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William Wood of Massachusetts Bay Colony noted that the Native Americans "took the first ship they saw for a walking island, the mast to be a tree, the white clouds."
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North American colonies was the "Bay Psalm Book" which the Bible's psalms were rewritten to fit the rhythms of familiar Puritans hymns
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Johnathan Edwards called for people to rededicate themselves to the original Puritan vision, and a new wave of religious enthusiasm began to rise.
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The Enlightment,
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Pain and Thomas Jefferson shaped the American Enligtenment -
English colonies stretched all along the Atlantic coast.
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The war begins! French allied with a number of Native American groups to drive the British out of North America.
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The French and Indian War ends
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The colonies declared themselves to be "free and independent"
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Patrick Henry thundered to the delegates at the second Virginia Convention"but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
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The remarkable minds of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and other colonial thinkers put timeless words to this experiment in form of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.
