Colonial Roots

Settlement to 1783

Jeffrey H. Hacker

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317474104
• Subtopic: Early American History
• Index: History

Colonial Roots: Settlement to 1783, the first volume in the six-title series History Through Literature: American Voices, American Themes, provides insights and analysis regarding the history, literature, and cultural climate of the nation's formative era. It brings together informational text and primary documents that cover notable historic events and trends, authors, literary works, social movements, and cultural and artistic themes.

Colonial Roots begins with an interdisciplinary chronology that identifies, defines, and places in context the notable historical events, literary works, authors' lives, and cultural landmarks of the period. This is followed by a comprehensive overview essay that summarises the era's major historical trends, social movements, cultural and artistic themes, literary voices, and enduring works as reflections of each other and the spirit of the times.

The core content comprises 20-30 articles on representative writers of the period, along with excerpts from essential literary works that highlight a historical theme, sociocultural movement, or the confluence of the two. These excerpts serve the Common Core emphasis on "informational texts from a broad range of cultures and periods", including "stories, drama, poetry, and literary nonfiction".

Index

Page numbers followed by “i” indicate illustrations.

Act of Supremacy, 136

Act of Uniformity, 136

Adams, Abigail, 167, 168

Adams, John, 37, 71, 72, 104, 105, 167, 169

Adams, Samuel, 111, 112, 114

Addison, Joseph, 164

Admonition to Parliament, 136

Adulateur, The (Warren), 13, 166, 168

African Americans, 103. See also slavery; Wheatley, Phillis

Age of Reason (Paine), 37

Albany Congress, 75

Alliance, Treaty of, 78

“America Independent” (Freneau), 88

American Company of Comedians, 165

American Crisis, The (Paine), 35

American exceptionalism, 4, 180

“American Liberty” (Freneau), 13, 89

American Philosophical Society, 8, 75

American Revolution, 13, 20, 100, 111–16. See also Lexington and Concord, battles of

Enlightenment ideas and, 71

Franklin during, 76–78

Freneau during, 88–89

Jefferson during, 102

literacy rates at time of, 1, 144, 145

Paine during, 35–36

theater during, 163, 165–66

Warren’s work during, 167–69

American Whig Society, 88

Ames, William, 139

Androboros, a B[i]ographical Farce in Three Acts (Hunter), 164

Anglican Church. See Church of England/Anglican Church

Annapolis, Maryland, 7, 10–11

Antinomian Controversy, 6, 179

Arabella (ship), 29, 138, 178, 180

Articles of Confederation, 76

Atlantic Monthly, The, 115

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Franklin), 72, 73, 78

excerpt, 79–87

Of Plymouth Plantation compared with, 13–14

backcountry colonies, 144–45

Bacon, Francis, 29, 69–70

Bacon’s Rebellion, 4

Bailyn, Bernard, 71

Baptist religion, 100, 138

Barbary pirates, 104

Bare and the Cubb, The...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Chronology
• The Literature of Colonial America
• Bradford, William
• Bradstreet, Anne
• Common Sense
• Edwards, Jonathan
• Enlightenment
• Franklin, Benjamin
• Freneau, Philip
• Great Awakening
• Jefferson, Thomas
• Lexington and Concord and the "Shot Heard 'Round the World"
• Mather, Cotton
• Poor Richard's Almanack
• Puritanism
• Reading and Literacy
• Rowlandson, Mary
• Smith, John
• Theater
• Warren, Mercy Otis
• Wheatley, Phillis
• Winthrop, John
• Witchcraft and Witch Trials
• Bibliography and Web Sites
• Index