Ch4 - The Great Awakening and the French and Indian War Flashcards
Dates of great awakening
1730-1760
1662
Halfway covenant was adopted
Faithful narrative if the surprising work if god
Jonathan Edwards book about revival and it’s effects
Jonathan Edwards
Colonial Americas foremost theologian and one of the greatest intellects America has ever produced
George Whitefield
Most powerful evangelist of great awakening
1770
George Whitefields death
David Brainerd
Best-known missionary to the Indians
4 colleges that grew out of the revival
Princeton, brown, Rutgers, Dartmouth
Log college
Founded by William Tennent to train young men did ministry
Methodist revival
The great awakening in England
Phillis Wheatley
First black female writer in America
4 wars between France and England
King Williams war, queen Anne’s war, king George’s war, French and Indian war
Governor dinwiddie
Sent George Washington to warn French to leave Fort Le Beouf
Albany plan
Called for union of colonies, set precedent for union
Fort Duquesne
French fort at forks of monongahela and allegheny rivers
1757
William Pitt the elder became English prime minister
1759
British capture of Quebec
Peace of Paris
French Canada went to England, New Orleans and French territory west of Mississippi went to Spain, Spain gave Florida to England
1763
Peace if Paris signed
General James Wolfe
Captured Quebec for England
General Braddock
Attempted to take fort Duquesne but lost both the battle and his life because he did not understand fighting in the woods
George Washington
21-year-old surveyor and major in the Virginia militia