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As you walk in…. Have your literature book open to page 65. Unit 2: The Revolutionary Period. We are going to: Learn about the effects of Puritanism, the Age of Reason, and the American Revolution on literature. Recognize the major authors and genres of literature in the A.R.

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  1. As you walk in… • Have your literature book open to page 65.

  2. Unit 2: The Revolutionary Period • We are going to: • Learn about the effects of Puritanism, the Age of Reason, and the American Revolution on literature. • Recognize the major authors and genres of literature in the A.R. • Analyze Revolutionary writing. • Write in forms used by the writers of the period. • Write pesuasively.

  3. Video • The American Revolution Overview

  4. Fun Facts of the Colonists • Turnspit dogs • Teachers thrashed students with a hickory stick for misbehavior. • For the most part, colonists did not like the taste of pumpkin. • Church sermons usually lasted over 2 hours!

  5. Fun Facts of the Colonists • During prayer, people were required to stand, but it could last up to an hour! At most, FOUR! • Colonists enjoyed dancing to the tune of a fiddle, playing card games, racing horses, gambling, hunting, fishing, skating, and sleigh-riding.

  6. Colonists • They were normal, everyday people who will soon be affected by the war!

  7. The Revolutionary Period:The Age of Reason • Writers of this period were all conscious of belonging to the Age of Reason. • They believed that by using reason, human beings could manage themselves and their societies without depending on authorities.

  8. The Revolutionary Period:The Age of Reason • Thomas Paine published a work titled The Age of Reason, arguing God’s existence through reason and criticizing institutionalized religion.

  9. The Revolutionary Period:The Age of Reason • Reason thrived on freedom— • Freedom of speech • Freedom from rulers • Freedom to experiment • Freedom to question laws

  10. The Revolutionary Period:The Age of Reason • A number of the writers were adherents of deism, a philosophical movement that stressed the perfectibility of man through reason.

  11. The Revolutionary Period:The Age of Reason • By the free use of reason, human beings could progress: • Social evils could be corrected • Superstition and ignorance ended • And the general quality of existence improved

  12. The Revolutionary Period:The Age of Reason • Unlike the Puritans, the leading writers of this time were more concerned with life on the earth. • They tended to write on science, ethics, or government rather than on religion.

  13. The Revolutionary Period:The Age of Reason Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson Moderate & Orderly

  14. The Revolutionary Period:The Age of Reason • Americans of the Age of Reason differed in one dramatic way from the English. • They were able to test their ideas about freedom and progress by creating a new society. • The chance came when the 13 colonies decided to become independent.

  15. The Revolutionary Period:The American Revolution • The American Revolution was fought not only with muskets but also with thousands of pamphlets, essays, songs, poems, and speeches. • Because everyone was writing for a single cause, they began to see themselves as Americans.

  16. The Revolutionary Period:The American Revolution • The war of words began around 1763. • The English government started a program of taxing the colonies to help pay the costs of the wars. • Americans wrote, argued, and demonstrated against the taxes noisily enough to persuade England to repeal the tax. (Stamp Act)

  17. The Revolutionary Period:The American Revolution • The tax on tea was especially unpopular. • Americans still followed the British custom of taking tea twice each day.

  18. The Revolutionary Period:The American Revolution • England did not want to look weak, so they enforced a NEW tax program. (Townshend Acts) • Americans began to refuse buying English products. • England send 800 soldiers to Boston and killed 5 people– The Boston Massacre.

  19. The Revolutionary Period:The American Revolution • Massacre Day was a holiday in Boston for several years until it was replaced by Independence Day.

  20. The Revolutionary Period:The American Revolution • It was quiet for 3 years until Parliament put another tax on tea. • That December, Bostonians dumped chests full of taxed tea into their harbor—Boston Tea Party. • Parliament closed down all trade into Boston.

  21. The Revolutionary Period:The American Revolution • The worried and scared colonists met in Philadelphia in 1774 to decide what to do. • In 1775, England attacked America on Bunker Hill killing 150. • American congress asked Jefferson to write us a declaration.

  22. The Revolutionary Period:The American Revolution • America and Britain fought each other across America for 7 years. • The Americans first met with defeat. • A few months after the Declaration of Independence, our army was pushed out of NY and into NJ.

  23. The Revolutionary Period:The American Revolution • In 1781, American troops forced the surrendor of some 10,000 British troops. • In 1788, the United States of America began to exist under a democratic constitution.

  24. Tomorrow… • Bring your study guide and literature book!

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