| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Cabeza de Vaca | Spaniard; led 8-year expedition through the New World |
| smallpox | Europeans brought exposed Native Americans to this. |
| 1691-1692 | Salem Witchcraft Trials |
| Puritans | A group of Protestants who lived by a strict moral code. They left England in search of religious freedom |
| Puritan writings | diaries and histories |
| Age of Reason/Enlightenment | began in Europe by philosophers and scientists called rationalists |
| Rationalism | The formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority; people are good; clockmaker theory |
| Cotton Mather | Puritan theologian, who urged the inoculation against smallpox |
| Boston, 1721 | Smallpox epidemic |
| Deism | human beings can know God via reason and the observation of nature |
| Native American Literature | type of literature that emphasizes humans' relationship with the world around them; stories shared orally |
| archetypes | imaginative pattern that appears across cultures and is repeated through the ages. Can be a character, a plot, or an image. |
| Plain style | a way of writing that stresses simplicity and clarity of expression |
| myth | A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society. |
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