John Winthrop

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• Winthrop's "We shall be as a city upon a hill"

  John Winthrop was a devout Puritan. On his 1630 trek to the New England aboard the Abrella he wrote "A Model of Christian Charity."

• William Bradford (of Plymouth Plantation)

  John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity; selections from the journal of John Winthrop 1.

• Massachusetts Bay Colony and Virginia

  Under the leadership of John Winthrop, the colony was greatly developed and the community functioned based on the Bible. The colony was established as a "city upon a hill".

• Salem Witchcraft Hysteria

  Danforth • John Richards • Waitstill Winthrop • Samuel Sewall Clergy • Cotton Mather, Boston • Increase Mather, Boston • John Hale, Beverly • Nicholas Noyes, Salem • Samuel Parris, Salem Village • Francis Dane, Andover • Samuel Willard,

• Review of Select readings in Social Philosophy

  The solution provides discussion-based reviews on select writings by Aristotle, Michael Walzer, John Locke, John Winthrop & Edward Papenfuse, Jr.

• Literary Canon of America

  Bradford, Winthrop, Bradstreet, Rowlandson, Jefferson, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Hawthorne, and others.

• Development of American literature from the colonial period

  You could also use some narrative examples such as A Brief Account of the Agency of the Honorable John Winthrop. Notice how Wolcott writes about Charles II's settlement and the history of the colonies.

• King Philip's War

  Josiah Winslow banded with Governors John Leverett of Massachusetts Bay Colony and John Winthrop of Connecticut. Capt. William Turner and Capt. Benjamin Church led the Colonial force numbering to about 3,400.

• A Timeline of the Significant Events of the Roaring 20s

  This signaled that America as a country was beginning to live up to its promise as the"shining city on a hill" that John Winthrop spoke of in the 17th century.