Chapter 6

Question 1

This religious movement of the 1700s was in the colonies largely a response to the Age of reason and attempted to end spiritual lethargy and return the focus to God’s sovereignty.

Answer 1

Great Awakening

Question 2

This refers to the 18th century philosophical movement (which began in Europe) that stressed reasoning and the scientific method

Answer 2

Enlightenment

Question 3

This Puritan minister played a pivotal role in the Great Awakening and is perhaps most famous for his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”

Answer 3

Jonathan Edwards

Question 4

This “philosophical religion” to put it oxymoronically, taught that God was the universal “Clockmaker” who created the world but left man to manage the day to day operations of the universe.

Answer 4

Deism

Question 5

Originally from France, he explored in his Letter from an American Farmer and explored what has come to be known as the American Dream in his writings.

Answer 5

Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur

Question 6

in addition to his well known role as on of the American founding fathers he also wrote under pseudonym such as silence dogged and authored Poor Richard’s almanac.

Answer 6

Benjamin Franklin

Question 7

This English philosopher and author of two treatises of government as well as essay on human understanding believed that men had the right to overthrow an unjust government

Answer 7

John Locke

Question 8

This English philosopher who wrote leviathan famously argued that government is a positive good because life in a state of nature is nasty, poor, solitary, brutish, and short.

Answer 8

Thomas Hobbes

Question 9

From England, this anglican preacher who helped to spread the Great Awakening in the American colonies; he, along with John Wesley, was also one of the founders of Methodism

Answer 9

George Whitefield

Question 10

this word mean living forever or not subject to death or dying

Answer 10

immortality

Question 11

this latin phrase/term mean blank slate or clean tablet

Answer 11

Tabula Rosa

Question 12

although this word meant devoutly religious it usually connotes practicing faith in a hypocritical fashion.

Answer 12

pious

Question 13

born in England he published principia mathematica in 1687 and mastered physics with his famous three laws of motion

Answer 13

Sir Isaac Newton

Question 14

this word means traveling from place to place, especially to perform a religious duty

Answer 14

itinerant

Question 15

This word refers to that which can not be touched or perceived

Answer 15

intangible

Question 16

this bloodless coup of 1688/1689 in England meant the rise of constitutional monarchy as the last of the Stuart dynasty was outed and William and Mary agreed to limitations on their authority with the Bill of Rights

Answer 16

Glorious Revolution

Question 17

this grandfather of Jonathan Edwards, sometimes called “Pope” attempted to reform puritanism by de-emphasizing “saving grace”

Answer 17

Solomon Stoddard

Question 18

Named for the Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Arminius this free will teaching was the opposite of Calvinism and predestination of the elect

Answer 18

Arminianism

Question 19

this polish born astronomer and author of on the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres made the first serious challenge to geocentrism and published his famous work the same year that he died

Answer 19

Copernicus

Question 20

this Italian born author of the starry messenger is sometimes credited with inventing the telescope; he was also tried before the inquisition for his support of heliocentrism

Answer 20

Galileo Galilei

Question 21

this Ivy League institution was founded in 1746 as the college of new jersey and renamed in 1896

Answer 21

Princeton

Question 22

founded as King’s College in 1754 in New York and renamed in 1784, this ivy league institution is the fifth oldest in the untied states

Answer 22

Columbia

Question 23

Founded in 1764 this Rhode Island institution is the seventh oldest in the United States

Answer 23

Brown

Question 24

Chartered in 1766 and originally known as Queen’s College this institution was initially a private university affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church and open only to male students

Answer 24

Rutgers

Question 25

Found in 1693, this is the second oldest institution of higher learned in the U.S.

Answer 25

William and Mary