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Why do we care? (Label & take notes on your map) Understand who wrote early literature Understand why they wrote Influences: – Ethnicity (e.g. Finnish, Dutch, English) – Religion – Location, including: Encounters with Native Americans Landscape & climate
Colonial Era New England African slaves were brought to all areas Massachusetts – English Puritans – Plymouth & Boston, MA and surroundings Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire – More English Puritans
Middle Colonies New York – Dutch – along Hudson River in New York (Protestant Christians) – Soon Germans & English also settled NY (Protestants) Pennsylvania – British Quakers around Philadelphia – Scotch Irish from Northern Ireland in the west (Presbyterians) – Germans (Protestants) New Jersey & Delaware – Swedes and Finns (Protestants)
The South Virginia & Chesapeake Bay – English (not Puritans) settled plantations Georgia & Appalachians – Scots-Irish (Presbyterian) Map
West & Southwest Spanish (Catholic) – Florida – Santa Fe – Texas French (Catholic) – Louisiana – Nova Scotia Map
Summary Native Americans hadn’t yet been driven west Native Americans Most settlers from Northern Europe Diverse countries and religious sects represented African slaves in all parts of early America