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1
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What was the first American history book and who wrote it

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History of Plymouth Plantation

by William Bradford

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The Scrooby congregation became known to history by this name

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The pilgrims

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The pilgrims fled to this city in Holland to escape persecution. Why were they just satisfied in Holland?

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Leyden
Dutch authorities placed work restrictions on English immigrants causing children to work long hours and Holland was a very worldly place.

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This Puritan nobleman helped the pilgrims obtain a patent from the London company

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Sir Edwin Sandys

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How many passengers on the mayflower were from the Leyden congregation? How many passengers were there in all?

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35

101 about

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6
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What civic responsibilities did the pilgrims recognize?

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To obey leaders,
to pay taxes,
to be loyal citizens,
and to pray for their civic leaders

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7
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The first governor of Plymouth

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John Carver

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8
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Identify these people and things

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James I 
dissenters 
Virginia 
adventurers 
strangers 
toleration 
New England 
Mayflower compact 
1620
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9
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Lutheran pastor who started the pietist movement in Germany

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Philip Spener

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10
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What was England like in John Wesley’s day? Describe the churches of the time.

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Terrible moral decadence. Thousands of England Puritans left to America. Persecution ceased and those left in England lost desire for good. More freedom but more sin. Gambling, drinking, immorality and a bad literature.

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11
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John Wesley preached this many years. What did President Woodrow Wilson say that John Wesley’s preaching did for England?

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65 years
Woodrow Wilson said that John Wesley’s place in history prepared England for peaceful reform and saved it from a political revolution such as the one in France.

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12
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When did parliament band the British slave trade? When did abolish slavery throughout the British Empire?

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1807

1833

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13
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What do historians see as the beginning of the popular education in Great Britain

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Sunday school movement

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14
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In what year did modern missions begin? Who is the father of modern missions?

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1792

William Carey

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This name was given to the nationwide revival in 18th-century England.
This name was given in America.

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The Weslyan revival

The “Great Awakening”

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The reason New England did not share England’s problem of moral decadence

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Christians who had left England took their high moral standards with them and kept influencing new England for good into the 1700s. They were hard workers, intelligent, well-educated, weld to do, good and moral

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17
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How did the Puritan attitude toward work benefit New England?

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The Puritans saw work as a way of exalting God and they did not look down on poor working people. New England did not have any poor people.

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18
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Jonathan Edwards’s most famous sermon

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“Sinners in the hands of an angry God”

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19
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This famous American described George Whitefield preaching. What change did he say it brought?

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Benjamin Franklin

Everyone was thinking about religion it seemed

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20
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How many times did George Whitefield come to America? To how many people did he preach in his lifetime?

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7 times

Over 10 million people

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21
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These are the spiritual founding fathers of America.

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The leaders of the great awakening

Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield

22
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The opposition of the government churches to the great awakening helped Americans to recognize this principle.

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Separation of church and state

23
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Identify these people and things

A 
Pietists 
Brethren 
Moravians 
Deism 
Methodists 
William Wilberforce 
Robert Raikes 
Jonathan Edwards 
Half-way covenant 
George Whitefield
24
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Briefly describe the typical colonial government

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Followed policy of mercantilism and economic theory which measured the nation’s wealth by the amount of gold and silver at possessed
England wanted to use the colonies to boost their wealth. Colonists wanted to use trade to boost their own wealth, not England’s

25
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In what year were England and Scotland united to form Great Britain?

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1707

26
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This Hanoverian king ruled England one America one her independence.

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King George III

27
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How was the French and Indian war significant for America? What treaty ended the war?

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It removed the threat of French interference and united the colonists against a common enemy and gave them military experience they would use to fight England later.

28
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What part of Grenville’s reforms did the colonists hate most?

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The Stamp Act of 1765, a tax which required colonists to buy special stamps which had to be affixed to legal documents pamphlets, and even newspapers

29
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What effects did the Townshend acts have on the colonies and how did the colonies respond?

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They imposed duties on imports like paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. They Estadt wished a board of customs and created special courts to try customs Dodgers.
Colonists insisted they should be protected from taxation without representation. They boycotted and refused to buy British goods.

30
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What groups were formed to keep Americans informed of the conflict with England?

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Committees of Correspondence

31
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What happened at the Boston tea party and how did Britain respond?

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In response to being forced to buy tea from the East India Company, patriots dumped 340 chests of tea into the harbor.
Britain was furious. Parliament enacted the “intolerable acts” of 1774. They suspended the Massachusetts legislature and appointed a military governor to rule the colony. The Boston port bill closed the port of Boston and the Quartering Act put troops in each colony to preserve order.

32
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When were the first shots of the war for independence fired and where?

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Lexington Massachusetts on April 19, 1775

33
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He was chosen to lead the Continental Army

A

George Washington.

34
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This document has been described as the most important human statement of political principles in the history of the world. When was it adopted?

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The Declaration of Independence adopted on July 4, 1776

35
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Identify these things and people

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Mercantilism 
Robert Walpole Declaratory Act 
Edmund Burke 
Samual Adams Continental Congress 
Treaty of Paris
36
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This is when the United States Constitution was ratified.

This was the first president of the United States of America.

A

1789

George Washington

37
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Name some of the territories the United States acquired in the 19th century. What other way did the nation grow?

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Louisiana territory
Oregon territory
Also Florida, Texas and most of the Southwest
The population grew especially in New York and Chicago

38
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In what war did the United States prove that it was able to defend its interest

A

The war of 1812

39
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What warning did America issue to Europe regarding colonization in the Western Hemisphere

A

Monroe doctrine

40
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This war interrupted the nations progress and threatened it’s very survival. What was the outcome?

A

The Civil War 1861 to 1865
The union remained united. The war ended in 1865 when General Robert E Lee of the Confederate army surrendered to Union General Ulysses S Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
The 13th amendment was added to the constitution which outlawed slavery in the United States

41
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What territories did the United States gain after the Spanish-American war?

A

Cuba,
Puerto Rico,
Guam,
and The Philippines

42
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Why did Alexis did Tocqueville come to America?

A

To visit and study political and democratic institutions in America,
He later wrote a book “Democracy in America”
The religion of the nation and how they operated peaceably due to separation of church and state

43
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How did Noah Webster explain the origin of civil liberty?

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He said civil liberty was founded on the principles of the Christian religion. The civil liberty gradually advanced as genuine Christianity prevailed.

44
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Identify these things and people

A 
Articles of Confederation
James Monroe 
James Polk 
Treaty of Guadalupe 
Hidalgo 
Abraham Lincoln 
13th amendment 
USS Maine
45
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The separatists believe this about church government

A

Every local church congregation should be independent

46
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When did the second great awakening begin and where did it begin?

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In the early 1800s and peeking in the 1850s. It started in Kentucky

47
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Who organized the Methodist circuit riders

A

Francis Asbury sent by John Wesley from England

48
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These three denominations were prominent in the revivals on the frontier

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Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian

49
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This caused Charles Finney to take an interest in the Bible

A

As a lawyer he would study the Bible to find the connections between Scripture and the laws.

50
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This is the father of American missions and he served in this place as a missionary

A

Adoniram Judson in Burma

51
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This country lead the world in foreign missions efforts by 1914

A

The United States

52
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Identify these people and things

A

Circuit riders
D. L. Moody
Hawaiian islands
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