Scrooby Separatists: The Scrooby Separatists were a congregation from South Yorkshire England in the early 1600s. They emigrated to the Netherlands in search of religious freedom in 1608. They are significant to the American experience because they are the precursor to the Pilgrims, who would also eventually emigrate out of England and to the new world.
Oliver Cromwell: Oliver Cromwell was an English officer and proclaimed and convince Puritan. He served in England as a paramilitary leader in the English civil war. Once the civil war ended, he became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth in 1653. He is significant to the American Experience because being a massive Puritan leader of the Commonwealth, his power and influence over the Commonwealth…show more content… She is significant to the American experience because she recorded her captivity, with an especial fear of the wilderness and what she viewed as “Beasts” and “Savages” in referring to the local fauna and Native Americans. Her writings showed the general colonists attitudes towards the Native American and wilderness.
Captivity Narrative: A captivity narrative is story or recording of a person’s time in captivity, usual being held by an enemy they consider uncivilized. This is significant to the American experience because of the captivity narratives that came out of the early American colonial period, where colonists would be captured by Native Americans and record their general experiences. Such as the captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson, who’s logs only enforced the colonist’s view of the harsh wilderness and “savage” Native Americans.
Anne Bradstreet: The most prominent New England poet in the early 17th century, as well as the first woman ever to be published. She is significant to the American experience because her writings spoke of the harsh conditions early Americans faced, and of the trials and tribulations of social change and religious issues that plagued all the
