Ch5 Key Trends in Colonial Life and Though 1607-1754

Question 1

Theory of mercantilism

Answer 1

the world’s wealth (measured in gold and silver) was fixed and could never be increased

Question 2

Navigation Acts

Answer 2

no ship could trade in the colonies unless it had been constructed in either England or America

Question 3

Salutary Neglect

Answer 3

period before 1763 when navigation acts weren’t enforced, enabling colonists to develop economic independence

Question 4

First great awakening

Answer 4

evangelical Protestant religious revivals in NE during mid 1730s

Question 5

true or false?

the Great awakening had more followers than the englightenment?

Answer 5

true

Question 6

what did the great awakening stem from?

Answer 6

Pietism

Question 7

Who were followers of the enlightenment?

Answer 7

farmers and urban laborers

Question 8

what was the great awakening a response to?

Answer 8

rational christianity

Question 9

rational christianity

Answer 9

discarded the Calvanist belief of a punishing God

Instead God granted salvation for good behavior

Question 10

according to followers of the great awakening, how could salvation be attained?

Answer 10

through experience of a “new birth”

Question 11

Jonathan Edwards

Answer 11

sparked the great awakening through sermons such as “sinners in the hands of an angry god”

Question 12

George whitefield

Answer 12

famous preacher

Question 13

5 results of the great awakening

Answer 13

led to divisions between churches
promoted independent thinking (Similar to the enlightenment)
divided the world into two groups (the saved and damned)
Increased appreciation of the emotional experience of faith
increased the number of women in church

Question 14

At this time where were Indians residing?

Answer 14

the south

Question 15

Englightenment

Answer 15

intellectual movement by French and English from mid 1600s to 18th century

Question 16

2 prominent examples of enlightenment thought

Answer 16

ben franklin and Thomas jefferson

Question 17

3 results of the enlightenment

Answer 17

declaration of independence
promoted independent thinking
gave rise to rational christianity

Question 18

what was John Locke’s argument

Answer 18

everyone was entitled to natural rights: life liberty and property

Question 19

Name an example of Rational Christianity

Answer 19

Deism

Question 20

Deism

Answer 20

the idea that God created the world but left it alone to operate according to natural law

Question 21

Zenger Trial 1735

Answer 21

John Zenger, tried for seditious libel for criticizing the governor

Question 22

the acquitting of zenger established what?

Answer 22

criticism was not libelous if accurate