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English 301
Test IV
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Undergraduate 3
11/09/2010

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Extensions
Definition
when proper nouns are extended to refer to the generic sense of all nouns
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Sabir
Definition
language of the sailors
->acrolect-superior (portuguese)
->basilect-inferior
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William Penn
Definition
Where Pennsylvania got its name
means: "Penn's Woods" in latin
William Penn's dad, Admiral Willam Penn, was owed something and so the people gave his son the land of Jersey which is now known as Pennsylvania :)
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Massachusetts Bay Company
Definition
All I know is that the secretary is Ann Bradstreet's husband, Samuel Bradstreet
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Virginia Company
Definition
Shifted government to allow all immigrants 50 acres of land to work as they saw fit
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West Country Men
Definition
Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Francis Drake, Sir John Hopkins, Richard Grenvile
Looked for unclaimed territory on the North American Coast
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Goose Creek Men
Definition
200 colonists led by John Yeamans-from Barbados to Ashley River-->found Charles Town
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Amadas and Barlowe
Definition
Navigators hired by West Country Men to travel to the lands that were unclaimed and bring back an account of what they saw; they returned after 6 months of travelling and described it as "Paradise"
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Richard Hakluyt(s)
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2 printer cousins who printed Amadas and Barlowe's account of the unclaimed land; they described the New World as Paradise
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Oliver Cromwell
Definition
Along with Irishmen, he transported African workers from the British Isles, to Barbados, from there to SC and GA
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wampum
Definition
seashells which were useless in Mass./English Society, traded w/ Indian trappers from Beaver Pelts. Bay colony paid off debts to Mother England
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John Winthrop
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Leader of the 2nd wave of Puritans who went to Massachusett's Bay
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William Byrd II
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the most important prose writer aside from Benjamin Franklin
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Ebenezer Cooke
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Published the Sotweed Factor: Ora Voyage to Maryland; bought tobacco for sale to help his father
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William Bradford
Definition
described the hardships of the pilgrims
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Edward Taylor
Definition
Poetry was unknown until the 1930s
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Benjamin Franklin
Definition
America's 1st great thinker & world citizen; supported Webster because he had already tried to change the spelling system himself; he was a printer and could get rich
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Anne Bradstreet
Definition
1st truly great American Poet; her dad had access to the Earl voluminous library and he had her tutored in various languages, taught her dance, and extra stuff; her husband, Samuel, was the Secretary of the Mass. Bay Colony
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Michael Wigglesworth
Definition
most popular & widely read of the New England Poets
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Bay Psalm Book
Definition
represents the state of the art in Early Colonial America & the style least consistent with modern wage
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Sigma-s
Definition
feature retained from Old English and Middle English orthography
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Virginia Declaration of Rights
Definition
unalienable or inherent Rights "All men are by nature equally free"
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Thomas Jefferson
Definition
took the Virginia Declaration of Rights' belief that all men are created equal and put it in our Declaration of Independence
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Noah Webster
Definition
Developed a spelling book and gave it to the kids because older people were set in their ways and "Our Children Are Our Future"
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blue-back speller
Definition
a dictionary that had a blue cover... :D
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Joel Barlow
Definition
Picked up the idea but did not have much suppport on the American Academy
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John Adams
Definition
got the idea that we should have an American Academy
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Judicioius neology
Definition
a balanced way of making up new words-as new things arrive, Americans will create some new words to fit them
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Goober Peas
Definition
a folk song composed by southern troops of the Civil War; writer is: A. Pindar
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Thomas Paine
Definition
wrote his inflammatory pamphlet Common Sense and various issues of The American Crisis
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blends
Definition
(portmanteau words) words which are formed from the morphemes of 2 separate words blended together: gerrymander; squiggle; frazzle; squirt;squirt
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