American culture
American history
Before revolutionary war
Puritan belief
colonial america
Fights with the natives
Slaves are brought to America
Fights with the “devil”
American beliefs
Exeptionalism
American dream
Religous belief
The hand of an angry god
American politics
The British crown
Puritan laws
Puritan exeptionalism
Religious Enlightenment
The start of the enlightenment
colonial America
American icons
American revolution
Christian charity
John Winthrop 
The thirteen colonies borders are staked
the American Constitution
the constitution was ratified after the article of confederation because America needed a stronger central government
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America"
Deceleration of independence
the declaration was written by Thomas Jefferson for the freedom from the british
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
model of christian charity was basically to ensure justice and mercy in the eyes of god
"GOD ALMIGHTY in his most holy and wise providence, hath so disposed of the condition of’ mankind, as in all times some must be rich, some poor, some high and eminent in power and dignity; others mean and in submission."
American revolution
American exceptionalism
puritan exceptionalism was basically when people
anna Hutcheson
America write the declaration of independence
the American dream is basically what you believe defines success in America
model of a good Christian
Born: (January 12, 1587/88 – March 26, 1649)
puritan
wrote city on a hill
one of the founding fathers of Massachusetts
Mary Rowlandson
written by Jonathan Edward and it was the wrath of god it stated that god is going to sin the everyone
it was the puritan belief that you had to be good in the eyes of god
bill of rights
America fights the American revolution
Frederick Douglass writes his accounts of being a slave in 1845
1800's
Thomas Jefferson
post-colonial America
America writes declaration of independence and Bill of Rights
American enlightenment
john brown dies in 1859
the American civil war happens 1861-1865
Thomas Paine writes common sense
the belief that America is a better country than anywhere else
belief about rationalism, intellectualism religious freedom
people like Benjamin franklin believed in American enlightenment
Transcendentalists
the belief that "society and its institutions—particularly organized religion and political parties—corrupt the purity of the individual."
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Born: (1637 – January 5, 1711) kidnapped by Native Americans
puritan
wrote a story about her experiences
Born: (July 1591 – August 1643) she was a religious figure who held religious ceremonies
she went to court over it
Born:(April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) he wrote the declaration of independence and became president of the united states
Phillis Wheatly
Born: (1753 – December 5, 1784) she was an enslaved person who wrote poems about American and salve freedom
W. E. B. Du Bois
(born. February 23, 1868, died. August 27, 1963) fought for African American's civil rights and believed in socialism and "Black Americans should instead embrace their African heritage even as they worked and lived in the United States."
civil rights
self help
helping people books
get better books
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Andrew carnegie's book called gospel of wealth told other rich people that they need to help the poor
"The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship."
ragged dick books told stories of how to increase your wealth and it was aimed for the lower classes
self help books
Martin Luther king jr. does "I have a dream speech" in 1963
1960's
MALCOM X ( born, May 19, 1925. died, February 21, 1965) was a civil rights activist and a spokesperson for the nation of Islam until 196 4.
surviving usefulness is a book about how doing nothing is a whole lot harder than actual nothing, and how technology is making us isolated rather than being in a community.
Modern, American self-help