Among the members of the small band of Jamestown settlers was ____, an English soldier of fortune, whose reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinct American literature written in English. 2. The term “Puritan” was applied to those settlers who originally were devout members of the Church of ____. 3. Among all the settlers in the New Continent, ____ settlers were the most influential. 4 . General History of Virginia contains Smith’s most famous tale of how the Indian princess named ____ saved him from the wrath of her father 5. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the ____ values that dominated much of the early American writing. 6. The American poets who emerged in the seventeenth century adapted the style of established European poets to the subject matter confronted in a strange, new environment. ____ Bradstreet was one such poet. 7. Bradford himself used a word “____” to describe the community of believers who sailed from Southampton England, on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. 8. In 1620, ____ was elected Governor of Plymouth, Massachusetts. 9. Jonathan Edwards’s masterpiece is ____. 10. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America is a collection of poems composed by ____. 11. The War of Independence lasted eight year till ____. 12. Franklin also edited the first colonial magazine, which he called ____. 13. Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece ____. 14. Thomas Paine, with his natural gift for pamphleteering and rebellion, was appropriately born into an age of ____. 15. On January 10, 1776, Paine’s famous pamphlet ____ appeared. 16. A series of sixteen pamphlets by Paine was entitled ____. 17. Paine’s second most important work ____ was an impassioned plea against hereditary monarchy. 18. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was ____. 19. Philip Freneau’s famous poem ____ was written about his imprisoned experience. 20. In American literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of of ____ and Revolution.