1. Colonial Period Literature

2. Colonial U.S. at 1775

3. Peoples of the Time
Puritans

4. Quakers

5. Native Americans

6. Concepts within Colonial Literature
AGE OF REASON
* Artist and writers prefer logic instead of emotion;
* Architects and creators prefer balance and symmetry to what we would today consider organic shapes and natural forms;
* Thinkers rely more on reason and logic rather than intuition and the imagination.
PURITANISM: have a disagreement with Catholics over authority. Puritans believed in:
* The primacy (importance) of personal, unmediated faith (no Pope, confessions, selling pardons).
* The primacy of the Biblical text.
Puritan Literature comes from a private need to examine the inner life.
Predestination: God chooses at birth those he would save. Catholics believed that salvation could be earned or gained through good works. Puritans rejected the theological view that "good works" save one's soul because they believed that man was primarily evil and only God could save him.

7. Portrait of George Washington By Gilbert Stuart

8. Oliver and Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth by Ralph Earl

9. Hathaway House 1760’s by Shem Burbank