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Part I. The Literature of Colonial America I. Fill in the following Blanks. The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was Puritanism______. Among the members of the small band of Jamestown settlers was _John Smith____, an English soldier of fortune, whose reports fo exploratin, publiseed in the early 1600s, have been described as the first distinct American literaature written in English. The term Puritan was applied to those settlers who originally were devout members of the Church of _England_. Among all the settlers in the New Continent, _____ settlers