Multiple Choice Questions

House of Burgesses 1607
  • Representative Government
  • Colonial Assemblies
  • Freedom of the Press
  • Participatory government
Rhode Island Roger Williams 1636
  • Separation of church send state
  • Impact of the Great Awakening on Society
  • The Great Awakening
  • No hereditary aristocracy
PA, RI, and Maryland toleration act 1649
  • Freedom Of The Press
  • Religious Toleration
  • Representative Government
  • Voluntary Neglect
Mayflower compact 1620
  • Colonial Assemblies
  • Participatory government
  • Freedom of the Press
  • Representative Government
The idea that colonies exist for the benefit of the Mother Country
  • Literacy
  • Mercantilism
  • Social mobility
  • Middle class
Enlightenment ideas about sovereignty and rights of the people were radical and challenged the practice throughout the world of dictatorial ruleThese new views took a strong hold in the minds of the British colonists
  • Outcomes of the enlightenment
  • Reasons for the Great Awakening
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • Freedom of the Press
People begin to feel as though religion was dry, dull, and distantBelieved the public had "fallen asleep" piously and needed to be woken up
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • Outcomes of the enlightenment
  • Reasons for the Great Awakening
  • Freedom of the Press
Policy of the early 1700s that favored British merchants by doing nothing to disturb the prosperity of the American coloniesResulted in the American colonies having many freedoms that were not offered in other British colonies
  • Locke's beliefs
  • Voluntary Neglect
  • Religious Toleration
  • Jonathan Edwards
Enlightenment philosopher whose ideas influenced the American belief in self governed
  • Thomas Paine
  • John Locke
  • Rousseau
  • Social Contract
John Peter Zinger trial 1734
  • Colonial Assemblies
  • Freedom of the Press
  • Town meetings in NE
  • Written constitutions
Clergy who tried to fight the influence of the Great AwakeningPromoted church membership as means to salvationUse of reasonPromoted hierarchy and respect for authorityTraditional beliefs within the coloniesQuakers send Anglicans
  • New Lights
  • Old Lights
  • Thomas Paine
  • John Locke
Evangelical ministers belonging to new religious sectsPart of the revivalsFelt that religious message had run astrayBaptists, and Methodists
  • Social Contract
  • Old Lights
  • Literacy
  • New Lights
A religious movement that swept through the colonies and Europe during mid 1700sRapid growth of evangelical religions such as Methodist and BaptistFirst real common colonial experience
  • Separation of church send state
  • The Enlightenment
  • The Great Awakening
  • No hereditary aristocracy
English immigrant to America who produced a pamphlet known as Common SenseChallenged the rule of American colonies by the king of EnglandContributed to a desire for independence from GB
  • John Locke
  • George Whitefield
  • Religious impact of the great awakening
  • Thomas Paine
Mostly in new England and middle colonies
  • Social Contract
  • Written constitutions
  • Middle class
  • Social mobility
Theologian from MassachusettsPreached about:The sovereignty of GodThe moral corruption of manThe imminent danger of HellThe importance of a religious rebirth
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • Social Contract
  • Locke's beliefs
  • Social mobility
Challenged the established religious beliefs, practices, and institutionsPopularity of evangelical movement and style of preaching creates problems for established churches
  • George Whitefield
  • Thomas Paine
  • Religious impact of the great awakening
  • Impact of the Great Awakening on Society
Colonial society was more egalitarianNo nobility and paternalistic, monarchal rule common to EuropeMore religious diversity and toleration than in England and Europe
  • George Whitefield
  • Separation of church send state
  • No hereditary aristocracy
  • The Great Awakening
Promoted equalityAnyone could be saved; Blacks and women considered equals within the "New Light" movementChallenged established authority"Come as you are"Laid the foundations for the American Revolution
  • Impact of the Great Awakening on Society
  • Thomas Paine
  • George Whitefield
  • Religious impact of the great awakening
Direct democracy in practice
  • Freedom of the Press
  • Colonial Assemblies
  • Written constitutions
  • Town meetings in NE
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