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Chapter 1 Colonial America outline American Puritanism The literary scene poems by Anne Bradstreet, Taylor, Freneau American Puritanism 1, the time and the puritans: It began in the early part of the 17th century when the English, the first settlers (most of them were Puritans) came to the North American continent and became the founding fathers of the American nation. P11,para1 American Puritanism 2, the Doctrines: Calvinism The doctrine accepted by A Puritans had been preached by John Calvin (1509-1564), the great French theologian who lived in Geneva. Calvinism refers to: the doc