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Please type your response to the writing prompt above into the text box. You can write as much as you want, but aim for a minimum of one-paragraph with 8-10 sentences.

 Identify: The author who lists the six logical terms of the first American treaty with the Wampanoag people, faithfully kept for fifty-four years, until 1675, when Metacomet, or King Philip, began attacks that became known as King Philip’s War against the immigrants on their land. This war ending the treaty is the one that includes the events described by Mary Rowlandson.

Identify the title of the quote:    “My list of virtues contained at first but twelve; but a Quaker friend having kindly informed me that I was generally thought proud; that my pride showed itself frequently in conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any point, but was overbearing, and rather insolent, of which he convinced me by mentioning several instances; I determined endeavoring to cure myself, if I could, of this vice or folly among the rest, and I added Humility to my list, giving an extensive meaning to the word.”  

Identify title of quote:   “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Identify the author: This author published over four hundred works. Some of his most engaging writings deal with the witchcraft trials at Salem, which illustrate central tensions between the Puritan worldview and an emerging, science-based modern order. He was only indirectly involved in the witch trial prosecutions. He was recognized as having an interest in scientific investigation of the natural world. He took a public stand in favor of inoculation during Boston’s smallpox epidemic in 1721-22, causing many to condemn him. He approached the study of witchcraft in much the same way he approached other physical, mental, and spiritual phenomena.

    Identify the year:   After being taken off course by a storm in this year, the Pilgrim immigrants landed in the Cape Cod area they called Plymouth, having traveled for two months across the Atlantic Ocean on the Mayflower.

Identify the title of the quote:   “The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth. ‘Tis not the affair of a city, a county, a province, or a kingdom; but of a continent-at least one-eighth part of the habitable globe. ‘Tis not the concern of a day, a year, or an age; posterity are virtually involved in the contest, and will be more or less affected even to the end of time by the proceedings now. Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith, and honor.”

Identify: Franklin used this fictional persona to dispense practical advice to his fellow colonists in almanac form. His first name is in the title.

  Identify:   This is the first university established in the colonies by the English immigrants in 1636, six years after the arrival of the Puritans including Winthrop and Bradstreet. This institution was founded primarily for the training of ministers, who would be needed as more Puritan immigrants flowed into Boston. It has maintained a position of respect for almost 400 years.

 Identify title of quote:    “Before the trial of this prisoner, several of her own children had frankly and fully confessed not only that they were witches themselves, but that this their mother had made them so. This confession they made with great shows of repentance, and with much demonstration of truth. They related place, time, occasion; they gave an account of journeys, meetings and mischiefs by them performed, and were very credible in what they said. . . .”