Cherokee Lands:

Just go to Wikipedia

Dust Bowl

Lots of options: Just gotta have a circle around the Oklahoma Panhandle

Santa Fe, New Mexico

St Louis, Missouri.

Hakylut, Winthrop, and Crevecoeur each lay out a vision of what life in the America's is or will be.

Who offers the most recognizably modern vision of America you read here? What feels the most unfamiliar? Why?

• Purpose
• Argument
• Presuppositions and values (in the text, and our own)
• Epistemology (evaluating truth content)
• Relate to other texts (compare and contrast)

Religious Colonies

• Massachusetts: Puritans
• Maryland: Catholics
• Pennsylvania: Quakers

Wrentham, MA

Paxton, MA

West Brookfield, MA

Barre, MA

Walpole, NH

John Winthrop:

Establish a "due form of government both civil and ecclesiastical."

Three ways of saying the same thing:

• Negative and positive liberty
• Freedom as independence, vs freedom as self-realization
• "Freedom from" vs. "Freedom to"

The Christian Commonwealth

• No dice
• No drama
• No Christmas
• No fancy clothing
• No smoking

“Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” H.L. Mencken

American Protestantism

• Decentralized (rarely bishops, congregations frequently choose leaders)
• Frequent schisms (splits in churches)
• Focus on "regeneration": the renewal of the self only possible through God's love.
• Close attention to Biblical teachings (like European Protestantism).

Quaker Meeting

William Penn

Pennsylvania:

• Founded by Quakers, but not a Quaker colony.
• Freedom of religion.
• Multinational Immigration (especially Germans.)
• Farming (especially wheat).
• Largest city in 13 colonies (Philadelphia).