500 different languages but no written work

Turtle Island

3 waves : 1 pirates, adventurers,explorers

2-bring their children and wives

3-physician , banker ,judges

• Genres

First colony : Roanoke (reported by Thomas Hariot)

Second colony : Jamestown (more permanent )

JOHN SMITH - Pocahontas

Puritans - religious group ( ambitious ,hardworking)

Quakers (Friends ) belived in universal love and brotherhood

Slave narratives -Jupiter Hammon “An evening thought”

American Revolution - enlightenment (1776-1820)

• BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (THE FIRST AMERICAN AND LAST UNIVERSAL MAN)

Writer, printer, publisher, scientist, philanthropist, and diplomat, he was the most famous and respected private figure of his time. He was the first great self-made man in America, a poor democrat born in an aristocratic age that his fine example helped to liberalize.

• GEORGE WASHINGTON
• THOMAS JEFFERSON

<aside> 💡 The 18th-century American Enlightenment was a movement marked by an emphasis on rationality rather than tradition, scientific inquiry instead of unquestioning religious dogma, and representative government in place of monarchy.

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