American Studies 100W: Introduction to American Studies
Michael O'Toole (Abington College), sect. 101 

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 Third Class

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Puritans and American Civilization.

Full Presentation with images available as powerpoint

        John Winthrop, A Modell of Christian Charity

Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God

Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christii Americana

Background Exhibition of use from the Library of Congress

Timeline

1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada

1619 Jamestown (see the news from Williamsburg)

1620 Plymouth Colony

1630 Massachusetts Bay Company and later Massachusetts Bay Colony

1636 Antinomian Controversy

1640 Revolution in England

1660 Restoration in England

Halfway Covenant

1680 Open Communion (Solomon Stoddard)

1692 Salem Witchcraft Controversy

1740 First Great Awakening

Migrations

Southern Migrations

Plymouth

Puritans aboard the Arabella

Covenant (Puritan) Theology

Predestination: The Saved and the Damned

Radical Calvinists (John Calvin)  See Background notes on Calvin from UWISC, The Institutes of the Christian Church

Hierarchy, Great Chain of Being (see web notes from Stanford), Order

Elders, Visible Saints

John Winthrop and the Plan for New England

	 A Modell of Christian Charity

Antinomian Controversy

Anne Hutchinson (see background from Barnard and Harvard Magazine) v. John Winthrop

   Heresy and Blasphemy

Civil War in England: Puritans in Control:  see chronology

The Cambridge Platform 1649

Halfway Covenant

	See overall political outline for 17th century from Ball State U

	See also notes from U Kentucky regarding Halfway Covenant

Children of the Elect and Communion

	Population Pressures

Restoration

Prosperity

Open Communion

Solomon Stoddard

Northampton, Connecticut River Valley

Salem and the Breakdown of the Sacred Commonwealth

	See documentary history project from UVA

	Sir Edmund Andros Royal Governor

Witches, Trances, Young Women v. Old

Samuel Sewall's Recantation

Jonathan Edwards and the First Great Awakening

	Perspectives from  Wake Forest

	See Fogel's outline of Four Great Awakenings

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